acceptor
English
/əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/, /ək.ˈsɛp.tɚ/
noun
Definitions
- One who accepts.
- (legal) One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
- (chemistry) An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
- (biochemistry) A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
- (physics) A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
- (physiology) A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
- (comptheory) A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.
Etymology
Suffix from English accept.
Origin
English
accept
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- accept English
- acceptance English
- acceptant English
- acceptation English
- accepted English
- acceptee English
- accepter English
- acceptest English
- accepteth English
- acception English
- acceptive English
- acceptress English
- alloacceptor English
- isoacceptor English
- phosphoacceptor English
- photoacceptor English
- reaccept English
- superaccept English
- unaccept English
- accepter French
- *keh₂p- Proto-Indo-European
- accepten Middle English
- akcepti Esperanto
- akseptim Tok Pisin