acceptor

Plural: acceptors

Noun

• One who accepts; especially one who accepts a bill of exchange.
• (chemistry) in the formation of a coordinate bond it is the compound to which electrons are donated
• the person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures
• One who accepts.
• One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
• An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
• A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
• A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
• A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
• A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.

Examples

• The board was the final acceptor of all valid words.