reception

Definitions

General English

• noun the way in which people react to something that happens or to someone who arrives
• noun the place in a hotel where guests go when they arrive or leave, e.g. to get the key to their room
• noun a place in a large building where visitors go when they arrive and say who they have come to see
• noun a big party held to welcome special guests
• noun the quality of the sound on a radio or the sound and picture of a TV broadcast

Aviation

• noun an act or instance of receiving radio signals

Commerce

• noun a place in a hotel or office where visitors register or say who they have come to see

Electronics

• The conversion of information-bearing signals, such as those conveyed via electromagnetic waves, into the signals of interest, such as music, images, or data. For example, the use of a receiver to demodulate an FM signal, so as to recover the original music.
• The quality or fidelity attained during reception (1).

Information & Library Science

• noun an area for receiving visitors to a building

Media Studies

• noun the quality of the signal received by a radio or television set, or by a mobile phone
• noun the process of receiving and converting electronic signals
• noun in interpersonal communication, the process of receiving signals containing a message

Military

• noun an act of receiving a radio signal

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Contexts for “reception”

14 definitions in context
• General English
• Aviation
• Commerce
• Electronics
• Information & Library Science
• Media Studies
• Military