acceptor
nounUK /əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/ · US /əkˈsɛp.tɚ/
Etymology From Middle English acceptour, from Latin acceptor, with the meanings from accept.
7 senses
- 1One who accepts.
- 2One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee…
- 3An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form…
- 4A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
- 5A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a…
- 6A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
- 7A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output…
One who accepts.
Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
Medicine, Physiology, Sciences A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
Computing, Computing theory, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.
- Derived terms
- acceptorless, acceptress, alloacceptor, isoacceptor, phosphoacceptor, photoacceptor