Meaning

7 senses
  1. One who accepts.

    акцепта́нтakceptánt

    the person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures

  2. One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

  3. An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.

  4. A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid

  5. A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor

  6. A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain

  7. A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Oxygen acts as the final electron acceptor in the mitochondrial electron transport chain.

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  2. In redox reactions, the oxidizing agent is the electron acceptor and becomes reduced.

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  3. The acceptor acknowledges that all terms and conditions have been read and understood.

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Translations

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one who accepts:

Origin

From Middle English acceptour, from Latin acceptor, with the meanings from accept.

From Middle English acceptour, from Latin acceptor, with the meanings from accept.

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