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acceptor

/əkˈsɛp.tɚ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.75 in modern English

Syllables
ac-cep-tor
IPA
/əkˈsɛp.tɚ/
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who accepts.

noun

One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

noun

An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.

noun

A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid

noun

A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor

noun

A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain

noun

A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /əkˈsɛp.tɚ/
  • British English: /əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/

Inflected Forms

acceptors (plural) acceptour (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

acceptorless acceptress alloacceptor isoacceptor phosphoacceptor photoacceptor

Questions

How do you pronounce acceptor?
The recorded pronunciation is /əkˈsɛp.tɚ/.
What does acceptor mean?
One who accepts.
Where does acceptor come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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