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rake receiver

rake receiver noun: a radio receiver designed to counter the effects of multipath fading, using several sub-receivers called fingers that independently decode individual multipath components; they are recombined at a later stage.

Noun (1)

rake receiver (plural rake receivers)

  1. A radio receiver designed to counter the effects of multipath fading, using several sub-receivers called fingers that independently decode individual multipath components; they are recombined at a later stage.

Noun (2) capitalized: RAKE receiver

RAKE receiver (plural RAKE receivers)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of rake receiver.

Forms of rake receiver

pluralrake receivers
alternative formRAKE receiver
pluralRAKE receivers

Questions about rake receiver

What does rake receiver mean?
Rake receiver means a radio receiver designed to counter the effects of multipath fading, using several sub-receivers called fingers that independently decode individual multipath components; they are recombined at a later stage.
What part of speech is rake receiver?
Rake receiver is a noun.
What is the plural of rake receiver?
The plural of rake receiver is rake receivers.

Words near rake receiver in the dictionary

  1. rake off
  2. rake out
  3. rake over
  4. rake over old coals
  5. rake over the coals
  6. rake receiver
  7. rake receivers
  8. rake stepping
  9. rake steppings
  10. rake together
  11. rake up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rake receiver (page history and authors); RAKE receiver (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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