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[ri-sep-shuhn]

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noun

the act of receiving or the state of being received.

a manner of being received: The book met with a favorable reception.

a function or occasion when persons are formally received: a wedding reception.

the quality or fidelity attained in receiving radio or television broadcasts under given circumstances.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English recepcion < Latin receptiōn- (stem of receptiō), equivalent to recept(us) (past participle of recipere to receive) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

non·re·cep·tion, noun

Synonyms
2. response, reaction, treatment.

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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Another example from my department: the annual fall reception and winter gathering.

People want their modems to work more speedily and their mobile-phone reception to be clearer.

Have the ceremony and reception in the same place to eliminate unnecessary travel.

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Another example from my department: the annual fall reception and winter gathering.

People want their modems to work more speedily and their mobile-phone reception to be clearer.

Have the ceremony and reception in the same place to eliminate unnecessary travel.

But scientists have generally given him a chillier reception.

Conference rooms, reception areas and group tours are also available.

It's also the enraged anthem of anyone who's had problems with cell phone reception.

They'll be far less troubled if the reception is not lavish.

The reception area is in the head, they walk up a leg to their bedroom, and they cool off in the swimming pool in the belly.

Ticket holders are invited to a special reception before the film.

The second floor, once the main reception room of this wealthy merchant's home, reveals faint traces of its former glory.

Converter-box users say the channel selection stinks and the reception is grainy.

Imagine you're at a reception and encounter a colleague with something green in his teeth.

Reception of echoes is the basis of conventional sonar systems designed by humans.

Pilots often find themselves in places with no cell phone reception.

Regular exhibitions about the university are held in the spacious reception area.

From many high points there is decent cell phone reception.

Just because you can get mobile-phone reception on the subway doesn't mean the person you're speaking to can hear you.

Also look for painted-over walls in reception areas.

Just give your name at reception or display your in-app receipt.

If you're wondering why your cellphone reception sucks so badly, part of it is because so many people carry phones today.

The reception area spills into an open room, encircled by desks.

When the film ended the reception began to fill slowly.

The largely positive reception of both my first book and my work in digital humanities pedagogy this year.

Nirschel's tenure, stating no plans to hold so much as a farewell reception for a president in his ninth.

But state schools that ape ancient private ones by adopting fancy uniforms have had a mixed reception.

Your reception and ability to make photographs-and your whole experience-will be enhanced.

Reception in cities is notoriously bad, because the broadcast bounces around as it strikes the tall buildings.

Lin, snatching an hour for tea in one of the traditional scarlet-tinged reception rooms where he sees visitors.

At the reception desk, a mother pleads with staff to admit her son.

If they get a warm reception they can subsequently be given the full publishing treatment.

Shivdasani's resorts are hard to beat– at one of his resorts, guests hang-glide to the reception area.

Is the quantum antennas broad band reception more efficient with a band gap in the middle of the broadband design.

The hospital reception posts the times of high tide, to save visitors from being stranded.

Brain scans have now shown that a fatty whatever-burger raises cannabioid reception levels to addiction status.

Many reviewers are reporting that phone reception in general is better.

Further, our library staff hosts an annual authors' reception for all of those who have published something during the year.

His reception is likely to be warmer than once seemed plausible.

Dinse notes that for rehabilitation regimens the improved sensory reception would need to be more durable and long.

Change your address to an area your cell carrier doesn't have service, then call and complain about not getting reception.

He thinks of the grad students who encircle the biggest celebrity at every reception.

Another group is waiting at still another reception that will not end until after midnight.

Demonstrations of drawing insects through a microscope, watercolor and graphite will be shown during the reception.

Poor satellite reception on overcast days shortchanged our speed and distance.

Critics, on the other hand, are giving the campy vamp flick a lukewarm reception.

Downstairs, the reception area is lined with battered folding chairs occupied by patients with makeshift bandages or open wounds.

These channels neither improve the quality of the message nor ensure the reception of the message by the students.

Students enter through a bright area used for reception and to check in new students for testing.

However, both universities were clearly reacting to the poor reception of nearby modern buildings.

We finally got him to give up his old phone that had no reception anywhere.

It would be easy to forecast a chilly reception in the team's temporary home.

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World English Dictionary

reception (rɪˈsɛpʃən)

—n
1.	the act of receiving or state of being received
2.	the manner in which something, such as a guest or a new idea, is received: a cold reception
3.	a formal party for guests, such as one after a wedding
4.	an area in an office, hotel, etc, where visitors or guests are received and appointments or reservations dealt with
5.	short for reception room
6.	the quality or fidelity of a received radio or television broadcast: the reception was poor
7.	(Brit)
	a. the first class in an infant school
	b. a class in a school designed to receive new immigrants, esp those whose knowledge of English is poor
	c. (as modifier): a reception teacher

[C14: from Latin receptiō a receiving, from recipere to receive]

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Word Origin & History

reception

late 14c., in astrology, "effect of two planets on each other;" sense of "act of receiving" is recorded from late 15c., from L. receptionem (nom. receptio) "a receiving," from receptus, pp. of recipere (see receive). Sense of "ceremonial gathering" is 1882, from French.

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