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Recencies
- noun - a time immediately before the present
- the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
Recension
- - The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.
Receptary
- - Generally or popularly admitted or received.
Reception
- noun - (American football) the act of catching a pass in football; "the tight end made a great reception on the 20 yard line"
- a formal party of people; as after a wedding
- quality or fidelity of a received broadcast
- the act of receiving
- the manner in which something is greeted; "she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors"
Receptive
- adjective - able to absorb liquid (not repellent); "the paper is ink-receptive"
- of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons"
- open to arguments, ideas, or change; "receptive to reason and the logic of facts"
- ready or willing to receive favorably; "receptive to the proposals"
Receptors
- noun - a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response
- an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
Recessing
- verb - close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"
- make a recess in; "recess the piece of wood"
- put into a recess; "recess lights"
Recession
- noun - a small concavity
- the act of becoming more distant
- the act of ceding back
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
Recessive
- adjective - (of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical
- an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical
- of or pertaining to a recession