reception

1. (uncountable, electronics) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.Examples: "We have poor TV reception in the valley."; "The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal."uncountable

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

3. (law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.Examples: "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."countableuncountable

4. (American football) The act of catching a pass.Examples: "Henderson can play multiple techniques, man and off, and over the last two seasons, he yielded just 20 receptions, on 44 targets, in single coverage on the boundary, according to Pro Football Focus, making him a prime candidate to start there as a rookie."countableuncountable

5. (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.countableuncountable