reception
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3.7
- noun
- /rɪˈsɛpʃən/
- Jargon
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recepción
- While hiking in the mountains, I was pleased to find that the reception on my phone allowed me to call for help.
- television reception
- signal reception
- better reception
And so you often watched things because the reception was pretty good.
- And so you often watched things because the reception was pretty good.
- And not even a second later after that, my phone goes from like full reception, no service.
- It would merely prove the TV sets necessary for the reception and processing of the signals.
- And I'm not talking about bad phone reception or, or slow download speeds.
- We're the Wi-Fi reception just plain bites.
- No, the machine is detecting some reception.
Examples
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Double your Wi-Fi reception with this easy trick.
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We got no reception down here.
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It's had such great reception around the world.
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And not even a second later after that, my phone goes from like full reception, no service.
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We'll get better reception up there.
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It's got way better reception for these little phones.
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OK, well guess what, You're getting wide reception now from the whole world.
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The reception is terrible.
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Yeah, so that's working fine and radio reception is really bad, but hopefully you'll hear it there.
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Through the crackling wheeze of the reception, a man read Shakespeare at three o'clock in the morning.
Fiction book (1996)
Compounds
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- Jargon
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Morphology
Etymology
Reception comes from the root of receive, which means 'to take in' or 'get'. So when we speak of radio or phone reception we mean how well the device 'receives' a signal.