radio receiver

Questions about radio receiver

What does radio receiver mean?

radio receiver means "an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals".

What is another word for radio receiver?

Close synonyms include receiving set, radio set, radio, tuner, wireless. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is radio receiver a common word?

radio receiver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.