acceptor

• acceptour (obsolete, rare)

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əkˈsɛp.tɚ/, /ækˈsɛp.tɚ/

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acceptor (plural acceptors)

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [akˈkɛp.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [atˈt͡ʃɛp.t̪or]

From accipiō +‎ -tor. Sense 3 reflects the meaning of accipiter, which had already been perceived as being related to accipere for a long time.

acceptor m (genitive acceptōris, feminine acceptrīx); third declension

1. receiver
2. approver
3. (Late Latin) hawk

Third-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

acceptor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of acceptō

• “acceptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "acceptor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• acceptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• acceptor in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

Borrowed from French accepteur.

acceptor m or n (feminine singular acceptoare, masculine plural acceptori, feminine and neuter plural acceptoare)

1. accepting

acceptor m (plural acceptori)

1. acceptor