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acceptor.

One who accepts.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/Received-Pronunciation/əkˈsɛp.tɚ/General-American/ækˈsɛp.tɚ/General-American
  1. One who accepts.

  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.

Where this word comes from

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

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.