Acceptor Definition

ăk-sĕptər
acceptors
noun
One who signs a draft or bill of exchange.
American Heritage
One who accepts; specif., a person who signs a promise to pay a draft or bill of exchange.
Webster's New World
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
An atom that receives a pair of electrons from another atom to form a covalent bond with it.
Webster's New World
An impurity, as gallium or boron, added to a semiconductor crystal to make a p-type semiconductor.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Acceptor

Noun

Singular:
acceptor
Plural:
acceptors

Origin of Acceptor

  • accept +‎ -or

    From Wiktionary

Acceptor Sentence Examples

  • If any buried hydrogen bond donors do not have an acceptor, they are listed.

  • A base is the opposite of an acid; it is a proton acceptor.

  • Like water and the amide bond in peptides, the imidazole ring can act as both a hydrogen bond acceptor and donor.

  • Oxygen is only involved at the very last stage of respiration as the final electron acceptor, but without the whole respiratory chain stops.

  • Methylene blue is an example of an artificial hydrogen acceptor, or redox indicator.

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Words Starting With

AACACC

Words Ending With

RORTOR

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acceptor

Words Starting With A and Ending With R

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With A8 Letter Words Ending With R