reconnaissance
noun/ɹɪˈkɒnɪsəns/ · /ɹiˈkɒnɪsəns/
Etymology Borrowed from French reconnaissance (“recognition”). Doublet of recognizance.
1
The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
- The third member, Sergeant Pieter Rousseau, had been with the back-up teams at the Hub; he was an expert on space reconnaissance instrumentation, but on this trip he would have to depend on his own eyes and a small portable telescope.1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama:
- Derived terms
- counterreconnaissance, photoreconnaissance, reccy, recon, reconnaissance in force, space reconnaissance
- Related terms
- reconnoiter, reconnoitre