Definitions
1.NounThe act of receiving.
2.NounThe 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.NounA social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone."After the wedding we proceeded to the reception."
4.NounA reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc."The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception."
5.NounThe 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."
6.NounThe school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
7.NounThe conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
8.NounThe act of catching a pass.
9.NounReading 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.