receptacle: difference between revisions

#* {{quote-book|author=Robert Kaye Greville|authorlink=Robert Kaye Greville|chapter={{smallcaps|Order I.}}—FUCOIDEÆ.|title=Algæ Britannicæ, or Descriptions of the Marine and Other Inarticulated Plants of the British Islands, Belonging to the Order Algæ; with Plates Illustrative of the Genera|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Maclachlan & Stewart, Edinburgh; and Baldwin & Cradock, London|year=1830|page=1|pageurl=https://books.google.com./books?id=bVRjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1|oclc=69235734|passage=Plants all marine, of an olive-brown or olive-green colour, becoming black on exposure to air; {{...}} Frutification, tubercles contained in distinct '''receptacles''', or embedded in the frond, and containing dark-coloured seeds surrounded with a pellucid limbus, which escape by a terminal pore.}}

#* {{quote-book|author=George Karleskint, Jr.|author2=Richard Turner|author3=James W. Small, Jr.|chapter=Multicellular Primary Producers|title=Introduction to Marine Biology|edition=4th|location=Belmont, Calif.|publisher=Brooks/Cole, {{w|Cengage Learning}}|year=2013|section=figure 7-12 caption|page=170|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBXTCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA170|isbn=978-1-133-36446-7|passage=In addition to gas bladders, the thallus of reproductive rockweed, ''Fucus'', has inflated tips called '''receptacles'''. The small bumps on the surface of each '''receptacle''' are conceptacles, chambers within which the gametangia grow.}}

# {{lb|en|electricity|US}} A [[contact]] [[device]] [[install]]ed at an [[outlet]] for the [[connection]] of an [[attachment]] [[plug#Noun|plug]] (typically by [[receive#Verb|receiving]] the plug's [[prong]]s) to [[supply#Verb|supply]] [[portable]] [[appliance]]s or [[equipment]].

#* {{quote-book|author=Charles R. Miller|chapter=Section 1: Foundational Provisions|title=Illustrated Guide to the National Electrical Code: Based on the 2002 National Electrical Code|edition=2nd|location=Albany, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Cengage Learning|Delmar Thomson Learning]]|year=2002|section=unit 2 (Definitions)|page=22|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=hot5A-muHWYC&pg=PA22|isbn=978-0-7668-7334-6|passage=A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug is a '''receptacle'''{{nb...}}. A multiple '''receptacle''' is a single device consisting of two or more '''receptacles'''{{nb...}}.}}