noun

• One who accepts.
• (law, commerce) One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
• (chemistry) An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
• (biochemistry) A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
• (physics) A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
• (physiology) A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
• (computing theory) A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.