acceptor

IPA: ʌksˈɛptɝ

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.

Examples of "acceptor" in Sentences

A perfect example is the bill acceptor.
The electron acceptor is molecular oxygen.
The preferred acceptor is calcium carbonate.
The halogen serves as terminal electron acceptor.
NADH is the electron donor and O2 is the electron acceptor.
In aerobic organisms, oxygen is used as the electron acceptor.
The acceptor requires periodic cleaning to prevent malfunctioning.
In this example, A would be the donor, and B would be the acceptor.
If the acceptor is another sugar, the product is an oligosaccharide.
In this context, the oxidizing agent is called an electron acceptor.
In reality tRNAs contain acceptor stems at both their 3 'and 5' ends.
I'm up for the former, but the designated acceptor for three of the latter.
Scratch a philo-Semitic fundamentalist, however, and you'll get a passive acceptor of Biblical genocide.
As the acceptor is consumed during the fixation reaction it must obviously be regenerated from the assimilation products.
... that at some point well before the posted time maximum, the coin acceptor door locks up and won't accept more change.
Once excited, the electron is quickly shuttled from the chlorophyll to a nearby "acceptor" molecule, setting off a series of electron transfers.
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