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receiver definition - telecom
Also known as a sink, a receiver is a target device, or destination device, that receives an information transfer originated by a transmitter. Receivers include telephones, facsimile machines, data terminals, host computers, and video monitors. See also transceiver and transmitter.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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