Receiver

Receiver or receive may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums

• Receiver (album), the second and final album of the band Farmer Not So John, released in 1998
• Receivers (album), the fourth full-length release from Parts & Labor, released in 2008 on Jagjaguwar Records

Songs

• "Receive" (song), a song by Canadian-American recording artist Alanis Morissette
• "Receiver", a song by Wagon Christ
• "Receiver", a song by the American band Bright on the album Bells Break Their Towers

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Receiver (statue), a public statue in Green Bay, Wisconsin associated with the Green Bay Packers
• Receiver (video game), a 2012 first-person shooter
• Receiver, a 2024 Netflix streaming television series following NFL wide receivers

Roles and professions

• Receiver, a person who receives goods in a distribution center
• Receiver, 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

Sports

• Receiver, a type of midfielder in Australian rules football
• Wide receiver, an offensive position in American and Canadian football leagues

Technology

• 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
• Receiver, the listening device part of a telephone
  • The headset (audio) that can also contain the above device
  • The handset that sometimes contains the above device
• AV receiver, part of a home theater system
• Citrix Receiver, a software client application used for virtualization
• Digital media receiver
• 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
• Milk receiver, the part of a milking machine setup in which milk is collected: see milking pipeline

Other uses

• Receiver (information theory), the receiving end of a communications channel

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with receive
• All pages with titles containing receive*
• Receipt
• Receiving (disambiguation)
• Reception (disambiguation)
• Receptor (biochemistry)