WordNet
n. an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals [syn: radio receiver, radio set, radio, tuner, wireless]
Usage examples of "receiving set".
She learned that a radio transmitting and receiving set was almost indispensable to such a wife.
They sat before a fire in the main room on the first floor, with the sending equipment and the receiving set close by.
He let the opened bottle sit while he made an adjustment with the voice-tone knob on a microwave receiving set that was plugged into reel-to-reel tape decks.
It has been definitely established the crook moves around fast to avoid being caught, and evidently carries a powerful transmitter and receiving set with him.
The TV cameras picked up the scene in close-up while in Denver Archibald Pincer came close to crawling right into his receiving set.
The receiving set had a catwhisker detector and a Murdock variocoupler with green silk insulation on the windings.
If the Cylons were using him as a kind of receiving set, then there seemed no way to medicate himself out of it.
It proved to be a miniature receiving set, so small that it fit snugly in the palm of Frank's hand.
A sixteen-year-old boy had heard the Russian broadcast imperfectly on a tiny receiving set rigged in his attic.
These mechanisms would replace the parapsychic gift of teleportation for any person traveling inside their cage by transporting them via the fifth dimension to any place where a correspondingly adjusted receiving set was stationed.
The Englishman sat without moving in front of his silent receiving set, dozing.
Every Local Defence Volunteer headquarters should be in possession of a radio receiving set, so that if necessary it can receive its orders over the air.
Four miles away in a sound truck two men sat in front of a sophisticated microwave receiving set.