satellite receiver

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   a receiver on a communications satellite

   Broaderreceiver

   Part ofcommunications satellite

Questions about satellite receiver

What does satellite receiver mean?

satellite receiver means "a receiver on a communications satellite".

Is satellite receiver a common word?

satellite 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.