noun
Meaning 1
One who accepts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
acceptor
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/
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General-American: /əkˈsɛp.tɚ/
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General-American: /ækˈsɛp.tɚ/
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noun
Meaning 2
One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, commerce, law
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noun
Meaning 3
An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
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Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
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Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
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Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
Meaning 6
A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, computing-theory, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 8
the person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: drawee
noun
Meaning 9
(chemistry) in the formation of a coordinate bond it is the compound to which electrons are donated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: compound, chemical compound
History
Etymology
From Middle English acceptour, from Latin acceptor, with the meanings from accept.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: قَابِل (qābil) — one who accepts
- Catalan: acceptant — one who accepts
- Finnish: vastaanottaja — one who accepts
- French: accepteur — one who accepts
- French: acceptrice — one who accepts
- Hindi: ग्रहीता (grahītā) — one who accepts
- Hindi: आदाता (ādātā) — one who accepts
- Ido: aceptanto — one who accepts
- Indonesian: penerima — one who accepts
- Indonesian: akseptor — one who accepts
- Latin: acceptātor — one who accepts
- Latin: acceptātrīx — one who accepts
- Norwegian: comm akseptant — one who accepts
- Portuguese: aceitador — one who accepts
- Portuguese: aceitadora — one who accepts
- Russian: акцепта́нт (akceptánt) — one who accepts
- Serbo-Croatian: а̀кцептор — one who accepts
- Serbo-Croatian: àkceptor — one who accepts
- Spanish: aceptador — one who accepts
- Spanish: aceptadora — one who accepts
- French: accepteur — in law
- French: acceptrice — in law
- Polish: akceptant — in law
- Czech: akceptor — in chemistry
- Polish: akceptor — in chemistry
- Czech: akceptor — in physics
- Polish: akceptor — in physics