plural of recon

(chiefly US, military slang) reconnaissance.

(chiefly US, military slang) reconnoiter.

(genetics) The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.

present participle of recon

simple past tense and past participle of recon

(transitive, intransitive) To consider a matter again. / (informal) To change one's mind, with or without actually considering the matter again

A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state. / The act of restoring something to an earlier state.

A period of the history of the United States from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-Confederate states, the ex-Confederate leaders, and the Freedmen (ex-slaves) after the American Civil War.

To construct again; to restore. / To attempt to understand an event by recreating or talking through the circumstances.