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Receiver or receive may refer to:
In technology
- The listening device part of a telephone
- The handset that sometimes contains the above device
- The headset (audio) that can also contain the above device
- AV receiver, part of a home theater system
- Citrix Receiver, a software client application used for virtualization
- Digital media receiver
- Receiver (firearms), which houses the working parts of the firearm
- Receiver (modulated ultrasound), a device that converts a modulated ultrasonic wave into usable information
- Receiver (radio), an electronic device that converts a signal from a modulated radio wave into usable information
- Tuner (radio), a subsystem that receives radio frequency (RF) transmissions and converts into a fixed frequency
- Television set, "telly" (UK), is a device that combines a tuner, display, and speakers for the purpose of viewing television
- Tuner (television), a subsystem that converts radio frequency analog television or digital television transmission into audio and video signals
Music
- "Receive" (song), a song by Canadian-American recording artist Alanis Morissette
- Receiver (album), the second and final album of the band Farmer Not So John, released in 1998
- Receiver (single), a single by Wagon Christ
- Receivers (album), the fourth full-length release from Parts & Labor, released in 2008 on Jagjaguwar Records
Other uses
- Receiver (information theory), the receiving end of a communications channel
- Receiver (video game), a 2012 first-person shooter
- In receivership, a person appointed as a custodian of another entity's property by a court of law or a creditor of the owner, pending a lawsuit or bankruptcy
- Metropolitan Police Receiver, formerly the chief financial officer of the London Metropolitan Police
- Receiver of Wreck, an official of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency of the United Kingdom, who is concerned with the management of wrecked ships and boats
- Wide receiver, an offensive position in American and Canadian football leagues
- A type of midfielder in Australian rules football
- A person who receives goods in a distribution center
- Receiver (statue), a public statue in Green Bay, Wisconsin associated with the Green Bay Packers
See also
- All pages beginning with "receive"
- All pages with titles containing receive*
- Receiving (disambiguation)
- Receipt
- Receptor (biochemistry)
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