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reception

noun
/ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/

Etymology

From Middle English recepcion, reception, from Middle French reception, from Latin receptiōn- (“the act of receiving; reception”), from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to hold”). Equivalent to receive + -tion.

  1. derived from receptiō
  2. derived from reception
  3. inherited from recepcion,reception

Definitions

  1. The act of receiving.

  2. The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

    • We have poor TV reception in the valley.
    • The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.

  3. A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.

    • After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.
    • "There was warmth, but there was also trepidation," said the head of one gay group, who attended the reception.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A reaction

      A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.

      • The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.
      • At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness. She was not repulsed, but her reception was cold; and this hurt her almost as badly.

    2. The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.

      • The reception of the hotel is on the second floor; exit the lift and turn right.

    3. The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are…

      The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.

    4. The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.

      • Among the numerous receptions of Roman law one event stood out, to the extent that, at least in central Europe, it almost monopolized the term.

    5. The act of catching a pass.

    6. Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken,…

      Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.

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Derived

autoreception, baroreception, chemoreception, critical reception, electroreception, magnetoreception, mechanoreception, nonreception, osmoreception, phonoreception, photoception, photoreception, proprioception, radio reception, receptional, reception center, reception centre, reception chair, reception desk, receptionism, receptionist, receptionless, reception room, reception shed, reception wiki, telereception, thermoreception, wedding reception

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at reception. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at reception. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at reception

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA