A radio receiver designed to counter the effects of multipath fading, using several sub-receivers called fingers that independently decode individual multipath components; they are recombined at a later stage.

plural of RAKE receiver

(American football) An offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.

A radio receiver that mixes (beats or heterodynes) a locally produced frequency with the incoming frequency

plural of superheterodyne receiver

The form of pronunciation of the English language traditionally spoken by the educated classes of the south-east of England, considered to be a standard (see received) and used as such in the pronunciation schemes of most British dictionaries. Abbreviation: RP

plural of exhausted receiver

(physics) A receiver, such as that used with an air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel whose interior is a more or less complete vacuum.

plural of first receiver

An audiovisual device, fitted to a civilian road vehicle, that uses the military Global Positioning System (U.S. Navstar system) as an aid to navigation.