(n.) The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey.
(n.) An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those figures are based on calculations recently made using images from Nasa's lunar reconnaissance orbiter cameras that reveal Lunokhod 2's tracks, the US space agency said.
(2) The technique holds essentially to the reconnaissance of these types of fibers in fragments or pellicles of said specimens, stained by the methods of Azan and Weigert-Moore, modified, without needing to take succour in histologic methodology applicable to other preparations, which, according to the A., would cause a break of continuity in the observation, and also in the interpretation of findings, and this is not always easy to be re-instated with ease and precision.
(3) Luleå’s Clarion Sense Hotel was my base for the night and before venturing out for some evening reconnaissance I checked out its Skybar restaurant – for some surprisingly tender reindeer, and sea buckthorn sorbet.
(4) A new Nimrod maritime reconnaissance aircraft will be scrapped even though £3.6bn – about the amount of money the entire defence budget will be cut by over the next four years – has already been spent on it.
(5) After six minutes of reconnaissance, it exploded, briefly.
(6) But there were only 15 there at the start because Kevin Magnussen and Daniil Kvyat failed to survive their reconnaissance laps.
(7) The Americans are supplying the intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance air capacity as well as most of the air-to-air refuelling.
(8) He was part of the reconnaissance unit of the 25th armoured brigade, which had been doing most of the fighting in Abyan province in the last year.
(9) The US has begun reconnaissance flights over Syria in preparation for a possible cross-border expansion of its aerial campaign against Islamic State militants in Iraq.
(10) US and British special forces have been deployed in Libya in recent weeks, with drones and intense reconnaissance by American, British and French warplanes.
(11) All four followed the instructions of Hussain, who meticulously organised the scheme: from getting the missile and bombs, to reconnaissance missions, to teaching the tenets of radical Islam.
(12) Instead, he says, the trip is about reconnaissance: a tentative toe on the Tarmac before a first tilt at the full 26.2-mile distance in 2014.
(13) The new high-definition images come from the American space agency Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
(14) This war, now almost totally forgotten, was the first in which aircraft went up in reconnaissance to signal enemy positions to artillery batteries; it was also the first to see aerial bombardments, using bombs thrown from Italian aeroplanes and airships.
(15) He vanished in 1972 alongside Kevin McKee after the IRA suspected the pair of working as undercover agents for a secret army unity known as the Military Reconnaissance Force, which was carrying out a covert war against the IRA in Belfast during the Troubles’ bloodiest year.
(16) On 27 January 1945 a reconnaissance patrol from the Soviet 107th Rifle Division emerged from the snow-laden forest 70km west of Kraków.
(17) In recent weeks, French and US reconnaissance flights have flown over Sabratha and Isis bases further east at Sirte, Benghazi and Derna.
(18) SAS reservists have traditionally been used as a long-range reconnaissance force but in recent years have served alongside SAS regulars in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
(19) We're going to use our unique capabilities, air power, ISR [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] and our training ability to make sure Iraqi forces on one side and Syrian opposition forces on the other side of the border can take the fight to Isil."
(20) The RAF has about 10 armed Reaper reconnaissance drones in Afghanistan, and these could be deployed in Iraq or Jordan if the war against Isis looks as if it may be prolonged.
Reconnoitre
Definition:
(v. t.) To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.
(v. t.) To recognize.
Example Sentences:
(1) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(2) When Hussain gave him a camera and told Cromitie to reconnoitre targets, he promptly sold it.
(3) The language doesn’t exist to describe this crime, and that consigns us to imperfect analogies: it is an invasion beyond privacy and beyond sex, into a person’s destiny, holding them hostage forever to the love of a child conceived as the byproduct of state reconnoitre.
(4) For many months after Mubanga was seized in Zambia with the help of British intelligence and sent to Guantánamo, the American authorities maintained that he was a dangerous 'enemy combatant', an undercover al-Qaeda operative who had travelled from Afghanistan on a false passport and appeared to be on a mission to reconnoitre Jewish organisations in New York.
(5) One was a list of Jewish organisations in New York, which, he suggested, Mubanga had been ordered to reconnoitre on behalf of al-Qaeda.