acceptor

About 1.42 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun One who accepts.
2. noun One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
3. noun An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
4. noun A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
5. noun A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
6. noun A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
7. noun A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.

Similar words

taker subcontractor sub-contractor receiver recipient acceptant accepter beneficiary assenter approver

Often followed by

of and is in for or sites site molecule

Word family

acceptors