Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1934, from a merger of transmitter + receiver.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A combined radio transmitter and receiver. 2 (context computing English) A device that performs transmitting and receive functions, especially if using common components.
Wikipedia
A transceiver is a device comprising both a transmitter and a receiver which are combined and share common circuitry or a single housing. When no circuitry is common between transmit and receive functions, the device is a transmitter-receiver. The term originated in the early 1920s. Similar devices include transponders, transverters, and repeaters.
Transceiver is the fourth album by the Des Moines, IA band The Nadas. The song "Walk Away" was used during the closing credits of the television show Pinks during seasons 1-3.
Usage examples of "transceiver".
And a gyro monocycle, an all-band transceiver, and an information watch.
The platen of the transceiver begins to turn, spinning the form around and around as the scan arm creeps down the paper and creates words and letters in response to the musical computer tones being beamed across the ocean by Adam.
Nearby are at least fifty fido men shooting with their minicam-eras, the transceivers floating a few decameters near them.
Worf rechanneled more auxiliary power to the amplifiers of the subspace transceivers.
The battle transceiver, on the planet, had its circuitry inside, and its screens shaped and joined on its outside surface.
When he returned three minutes later he brought with him a so-called minicom, which was a micro-hypercom transceiver.
The latter was engaged as a matter of procedure more than anything else, since the two patrolling orcas provided a far more efficient advance detection system than anything composed of circuitry and transceivers.
Surrounding Hefn and transceiver, a disk of April -- pink smears of blooming redbuds, fervent birdsong -- had superimposed itself on the dead of winter.
The radio transceivers, with their metallic parts, were removed from the helmets.
Go your merry ways rejoicing, as long as you carry your personal transceivers at all times.
The speakers of the Control Room transceivers made the air hideous with their squawking and ducking until Irene ordered them switched off.
There were shipsand, booming from the intership transceiver, the transceiver that was neither tuned nor switched on (but navies could afford induction transmitters with their fantastic power consumption), came the authorative voice: "Inflexible to Adler!
The satellite transceiver allowed global communications, tracking, biofunction monitoring, and data transmission, although the user could selectively cut off individual functions.
Beside the transceiver was an elaborate Sony biomonitor, linked directly with the surgical pod and charged with the medical history recorded in Mitchell?
It's his transceiver that enables him to talk to God, and, as all the various plots unfold—City versus Earthies, City versus Burnouts, Burnouts versus Earthies—God sees all, and God talks back.