photoreconnaissance
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of photoreconnaissance
First recorded in 1940–45; photo- + reconnaissance
Example Sentences
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Very simply, the missiles follow topographic maps developed with photoreconnaissance satellites.
From US News • Jan. 17, 2016
Its photoreconnaissance specialists and weapons analysts are the gumshoes who stake out the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces.
From Time Magazine Archive
At 44, he had won permission to fly photoreconnaissance missions over his native France.
From Time Magazine Archive
Major General Oliver Echols, wartime materiel chief of the A.A.F., set the committee on the track of another Hughes project: the high-speed XF-II photoreconnaissance plane, in which Planemaker Hughes had crashed a year ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
A British airman last week coasted high over the Messina Strait between Sicily and the Italian mainland on a mission of photoreconnaissance.
From Time Magazine Archive
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