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acceptor

UK/əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)//əkˈsɛp.tɚ/

acceptor noun: one who accepts.

Noun

acceptor (plural acceptors)

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

acceptor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

acceptor in Hindi

one who accepts
ग्रहीता grahītā, आदाता ādātā

acceptor in Tamil

ஏற்பி, ஏற்பான், ஒப்புவோர், ஏற்போர், ஏற்பவர், ஏற்பாளர்

acceptor in Malayalam

സ്വീകാരി

acceptor in Kannada

ಒಪ್ಪಿದವ, ಒಪ್ಪಿಕ
More languagesFewer languages
acceptor in Arabic
قَابِل qābil
acceptor in Indonesian
penerima, akseptor

Forms of acceptor

pluralacceptors
alternative form (obsolete, rare)acceptour

Plural of acceptor: acceptors

Origin of acceptor

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

Words formed from acceptor

Phrases with acceptor

Questions about acceptor

What does acceptor mean?
Acceptor means one who accepts.
What is acceptor in Hindi?
Acceptor in Hindi is ग्रहीता (grahītā), आदाता (ādātā). See Acceptor meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is acceptor?
Acceptor is a noun.
How do you pronounce acceptor?
Acceptor is pronounced /əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of acceptor?
The plural of acceptor is acceptors.

Words near acceptor in the dictionary

  1. acceptingness
  2. acception
  3. acceptions
  4. acceptive
  5. acceptivity
  6. acceptor
  7. acceptorless
  8. acceptors
  9. acceptour
  10. acceptours
  11. acceptress

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: acceptor (page history and authors); acceptor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acceptor (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acceptor (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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