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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who accepts.
2. 2
   the person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures wordnet
3. 3
   One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
4. 4
   (chemistry) in the formation of a coordinate bond it is the compound to which electrons are donated wordnet
5. 5
   An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.

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6. 6
   A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
7. 7
   A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
8. 8
   A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
9. 9
   A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.

Example

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"Oxygen acts as the final electron acceptor in the mitochondrial electron transport chain."

Etymology

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

Related phrases

amino acidfinite state machinetransfer rna

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