acceptor

English

Alternative forms

(obsolete, rare) acceptour

Etymology

accept +‎ -or-

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ək.ˈsɛp.tɚ/, /æk.ˈsɛp.tɚ/

Noun

acceptor (plural acceptors)

One who accepts.
(law, commerce) One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
(chemistry) An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
(biochemistry) A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
(physics) A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
(physiology) A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
(computing theory) A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.

Translations

one who accepts

Catalan: acceptant (ca) m or f
Finnish: vastaanottaja (fi)
French: accepteur (fr) m
Ido: aceptanto (io)
Indonesian: penerima, akseptor (id)
Latin: acceptator

Norwegian: comm akseptant c
Portuguese: aceitador m
Russian: акцепта́нт (ru) m (akceptánt)
Serbo-Croatian: akceptor (sh) m
Spanish: aceptador (es) m

Latin

Verb

acceptor

first-person singular present passive indicative of acceptō

References

acceptor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
acceptor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
acceptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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