Acceptor Definition
ăk-sĕptər
acceptors
noun
One who signs a draft or bill of exchange.
American Heritage
One who accepts; specif., a person who signs a promise to pay a draft or bill of exchange.
Webster's New World
An atom that accepts or incorporates a part from a donor, especially an atom that incorporates electrons to form a bond with another atom.
American Heritage
An atom that receives a pair of electrons from another atom to form a covalent bond with it.
Webster's New World
An impurity, as gallium or boron, added to a semiconductor crystal to make a p-type semiconductor.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Acceptor
Noun
Singular:
acceptorPlural:
acceptorsOrigin of Acceptor
-
accept + -or
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