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n.
  1. A prescription for medicine or a medical appliance.
  2. A remedy, cure, or solution for a disorder or problem.

[Alteration of ℞, symbol used in prescriptions, abbreviation of Latin recipe, singular imperative of recipere, to take. See receive.]


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(ahr-eks)

noun
1. A prescription.
2. A solution to a problem.

Etymology
Abbreviation of Latin recipe (take), imperative of recipere (to take), from re- + capere (to take).

Usage
"The Scrubs star dishes about her coworkers' embarrassing pranks and the Rx for romance." — Lesley Goober; TV's Resident Cutie; Cosmopolitan (New York); May 2003.

"Congressmen recently offered an Rx for sky-high medical malpractice awards by approving a $250,000 cap." — Pain vs. Premiums; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Mar 23, 2003.

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A communications abbreviation for receive. Contrast with TX.

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The symbol for prescriptions.

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For the model line of Lexus vehicles, see Lexus RX.
For other uses, see Rx.

RX was the common telegraph abbreviation for "receive", later used in CW. It should not be confused with Rx, used for prescriptions. It is also the IATA airline designator of Aviaexpress.

See also

  • TX, the common telegraph abbreviation for "transmit-out"
  • WX, the common telegraph abbreviation for "weather"
  • Q code, a standardized collection of three-letter signals, all starting with the letter "Q", initially developed for commercial radiotelegraph communication, and later adopted by other radio services, especially amateur radio.
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