acceptor

Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

ac·cep·tor

(ăk-sĕp′tər)

1. also ac·cept·er One who signs a draft or bill of exchange.

2. Chemistry An atom that accepts or incorporates a part from a donor, especially an atom that incorporates electrons to form a bond with another atom.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

acceptor

(əkˈsɛptə)

1. (Banking & Finance) commerce the person or organization on which a draft or bill of exchange is drawn after liability has been accepted, usually by signature

2. (Electronics) electronics Also called: acceptor impurity an impurity, such as gallium, added to a semiconductor material to increase its p-type conductivity by increasing the number of holes in the semiconductor. Compare donor⁵

3. (Electronics) electronics a circuit tuned to accept a particular frequency

4. (Chemistry) chem the atom or group that accepts electrons in a coordinate bond

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ac•cep•tor

(ækˈsɛp tər)

n.

1. one that accepts; accepter.

2. a person who acccepts for payment a draft or bill of exchange.

3. an atom that receives a pair of electrons to form a chemical bond.

[1350–1400]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun	1.	acceptor - (chemistry) in the formation of a coordinate bond it is the compound to which electrons are donated chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions chemical compound, compound - (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight
	2.	acceptor - the person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures drawee - the person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment

Translations

accepteur

accettante acquirente destinatario

акцептант

acceptor

[əkˈseptəʳ] N → aceptador(a) m/f (Comm) → aceptante mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

References in periodicals archive ?

FRET requires the use of two fluorescent dyes, one termed a donor and the other an acceptor. In the FRET system, the donor dye (D) absorbs a photon to generate an excited state (D*).

Tender or tough? Developing a meat tenderness biosensor

Part 1 identified the respondent as a handbill acceptor or nonacceptor.

Perceptions of handbills as a promotional medium: an exploratory study

Walsh, head of the contract services department logistics directorate at the National Naval Medical Center Bethesda, and the WAWF group administrator and acceptor, enjoys the availability of the implementation team, describing implementation as "seamless and transparent." With the new electronic process, the margin for human error is gone since the system finds the errors.

U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: leaders in implementing wide area work flow

The carbohydrates used included three new preparations synthesized from alternansucrase (asr)--maltose acceptor product, raffinose acceptor product and low mass alternan--and three commercial products: Benefiber, Fibersol-2 and Neosugar.

Learn how intestinal bacteria utilize oligosaccharides

Charlie Mann supplies the remaining acceptor in the shape of nine-year- old Dunston Bill.

RACING: Ritz looks a cracker

West Chester, Pa.-based MEI, a developer of electronic cash payment systems, says its cash acceptor has been installed in 69 coin-counting kiosks in grocery stores in Sacramento, Calif., Tampa, Fla., and Providence, R.I.

Coinstar kiosks test prepaid wireless. (Storeware)

Acceptor substrata of UDP-glucuronyltransferase and their assay.

Developmental increases in rat hepatic microsomal UDP-glucuronosyltransferase activities toward xenoestrogens and decreases during pregnancy. (Articles)

One exciting discovery is that substituting tin oxide ([SnO.sub.2]) for [TiO.sub.2] sufficiently chang es the acceptor levels and electronic coupling efficiencies to produce cells with absorbed photon-to-current efficiencies approaching 40 %, constant across the visible spectrum.

SOLAR CELL ELECTRON TRANSFER DYNAMICS MEASURED BY NIST SCIENTISTS

So if more than one method is available, and acceptor can switch over to a more suitable method of choice if the first (or previous) method of choice becomes unacceptable.

Correlates of choice of contraceptive methods in Pakistan

For years, scientists have been able to store light energy chemically using systems that utilize the ability of a donor molecule--one that becomes charged when exposed to light--to transfer its electric charge to an acceptor molecule.

Trapping light in a "cage." (light energy storage)

Key statement: A tire component comprising a rubber composition having a highly unsaturated diene elastomer and a reinforcing filler with a first methylene acceptor selected from 3-hydroxydiphenylamine, 4-hydroxydiphenylamine or combinations thereof; a second methylene acceptor selected from a Novolac resin, diphenylolmethane, diphenylolethane diphenylolpropane, diphenylolbutane, a naphthol, a cresol or combinations thereof and a methylene donor.