receiving set

Questions about receiving set

What does receiving set mean?

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

What is another word for receiving set?

Close synonyms include radio receiver, 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 receiving set a common word?

receiving set 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.