photoacceptor

noun

Etymology

From photo- + acceptor.

  1. derived from acceptor
  2. inherited from acceptour
  3. prefixed as photoacceptor — “photo + acceptor

Definitions

  1. A pigment that accepts a photon as the first stage in a photochemical reaction sequence

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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