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

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