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acceptor

noun

  1. entity that receives something willingly
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/ / /əkˈsɛp.tɚ/ / /ækˈsɛp.tɚ/

noun

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

  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.