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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reconnaissance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aerial
▪ He often does aerial reconnaissance for Dave.
▪ So long as they remain expensive, conventional air photography will, however, continue to dominate aerial reconnaissance.
▪ At best the amphibious raiders might have panoramic shots from aerial reconnaissance, or be given a flight over the target beach.
▪ July 3: Aerial photographic reconnaissance.
■ NOUN
beach
▪ However, there was nothing over-scientific about the Commander's first beach reconnaissance.
mission
▪ Tony Mullins was again in the saddle, but the reconnaissance mission was a disaster.
▪ Three days later, however, President Nixon ordered that the reconnaissance missions be resumed and that they receive adequate protection.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At best the amphibious raiders might have panoramic shots from aerial reconnaissance, or be given a flight over the target beach.
▪ In a conflict these would be vital for military communications, reconnaissance and even guiding missiles to their targets.
▪ In reality, the Navy was undertaking only minimal reconnaissance, mainly because of a lack of airplanes.
▪ Infantry traditionally performed three roles: It held ground, took ground, and con-ducted precise reconnaissance when on patrol.
▪ Later reconnaissance indicated that this had sunk.
▪ The visit to Tempe was in any case not a military reconnaissance.
▪ There was little doubt that tactical support and reconnaissance for the land battle would still need piloted machines.
▪ This lone air reconnaissance effort, however, would obviously not be enough.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reconnaissance

Reconnaissance \Re*con"nais*sance\, Reconnoissance \Re*con"nois*sance\(r?-k?n"n?s-s?ns), n. [F. See Recognizance.] The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey. Specifically:

  1. (Geol.) An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character.

  2. (Engin.) An examination of a region as to its general natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public work.

  3. (Mil.) An examination of a territory, or of an enemy's position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for directing military operations; a preparatory expedition.

    Reconnoissance in force (Mil.), a demonstration or attack by a large force of troops for the purpose of discovering the position and strength of an enemy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reconnaissance

1810, from French reconnaissance "act of surveying," literally "recognition," from Old French reconoissance "recognition, acknowledgement" (see recognizance).

Wiktionary
reconnaissance

n. The act of scouting or explore (especially military or medical) to gain information.

WordNet
reconnaissance

n. the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy); "an exchange of fire occurred on a reconnaissance mission" [syn: reconnaissance mission]

Wikipedia
Reconnaissance

In military operations, reconnaissance is the exploration outside an area occupied by friendly forces to gain information about natural features and enemy presence.

Examples of reconnaissance include patrolling by troops ( Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol, U.S. Army Rangers, scouts, or military intelligence specialists), ships or submarines, manned/unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, satellites, or by setting up covert observation posts. Espionage normally is not reconnaissance, because reconnaissance is a military's special forces operating ahead of its main forces; spies are non-combatants operating behind enemy lines.

Often called "recce" (British and Canadian English) or "recon" (American and Australian English), the associated verb is reconnoitre.

Reconnaissance (disambiguation)

Reconnaissance is exploration conducted to gain information.

Reconnaissance may also refer to:

  • Reconnaissance (military), the active seeking to determine a foe's intentions by collecting and gathering information about an enemy's composition and capabilities along with pertinent environmental conditions
  • Network Reconnaissance, an "exploration or enumeration of network infrastructure including network addresses, available communication ports, and available services"

Usage examples of "reconnaissance".

Contrat-Social, Mont-Blanc, Guillaume-Tell, Brutus et cette autre, dont on ne peut jamais prononcer le nom sans un vif sentiment de reconnaissance, la Butte-des-Moulins.

Colonel Longo has launched two reconnaissance probes and expects to provide vectors for planetary defense interceptors within the next moon cycle.

After hiking the full length of the secure area, Longo and his retinue boarded the reconnaissance module and moved into its cramped lab.

The latest rumor was that the Senate Appropriations Committee had decided to scratch all the families off the voyage, which would essentially turn Outbound Flight into little more than an extended military reconnaissance mission.

Was the hypothesis of conflict between Quintan builders a premise on which future decisions of the reconnaissance had to be based?

By this time, of course, the imperialists will know who and what we are, from their slinking spies and cowardly reconnaissance aircraft.

Light aircraft were being hoisted out of the holds of Stath ships, assembled while woven metal landing strips were staked down, then rolled onto the strips to take off on reconnaissance missions.

Shortly before we reached the storeroom for undeliverable mail on the second floor, I formed the opinion, which was later to be confirmed, that in this desperate hour for the Polish Post Office and the whole of Poland, the Home Fleet was lying, nicely sheltered, in some firth in northern Scotland, and, as for the large French Army, that it was still at luncheon, confident that a few reconnaissance patrols in the vicinity of the Maginot Line had squared it with Poland and the Franco-Polish treaty of mutual defense.

Reconnaissance in person was an archaic and unprogressive procedure, and it was a good way to get generals killed, but one could see a lot of things that would be missed on TV.

The Whippet was delivered to Portobello Barracks in Dublin, but within a matter of days was sent to Limerick on a training and reconnaissance mission.

Thus, being asleep in a nook behind the metal refuse-can, when the strange cat ventured to ascend the steps of the porch, his appearance was so unwarlike that the cat felt encouraged to extend its field of reconnaissance for the cook had been careless, and the backbone of a three-pound whitefish lay at the foot of the refuse-can.

On the 12th of July Jack rode out with his commanding officer, who, with many others, accompanied the reconnaissance made by the Turks and French, on a foraging and reconnoitring party, towards Baidar, but they did not come in contact with the Russians.

None of the reconnaissance Bolos in the direct path of the missile strike survived, but the chaos and massive spikes of EMP generated by the missiles which killed them had a disastrous effect on the missiles which had acquired the rest of the Battalion.

When Camp Four is established they try several reconnaissance climbs through what Hans calls the Jasper Band.

In large commands it may often be necessary to give the order from the map, but usually the outpost commander will have to make some preliminary reconnaissance, unless he has an accurate and detailed map.