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acceptor

noun
/əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/UK/əkˈsɛp.tɚ/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from acceptor
  2. inherited from acceptour

Definitions

  1. One who accepts.

  2. One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange

    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. ›+ 4 more definitions

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

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

    3. A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain

    4. A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received…

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for acceptor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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