How to pronounce “reception”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The act of receiving.
• (uncountable, electronics) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
• A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
• A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
• The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
• (UK, education) The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
• (law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
• (American football) The act of catching a pass.
• (linguistics) 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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