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Webster 1913 Edition

Acceptor

Ac-cept′or

(#; 277)

,

Noun.

[L.]

One who accepts

;

specifically

(Law & Com.)

,

one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

Webster 1828 Edition

Acceptor

ACCEPT'ER

, OR ACCEPT'OR,

Noun.

A person who accepts; the person who receives a bill of exchange so as to bind himself to pay it. [See Acceptance.]

Definition 2024

acceptor

acceptor

English

Alternative forms

(obsolete, rare) acceptour

Noun

acceptor ‎(plural acceptors)

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

Translations

one who accepts

Catalan: acceptant (ca) m, f
Finnish: vastaanottaja (fi)
French: accepteur (fr) m
Indonesian: penerima, akseptor (id)
Latin: acceptator

Norwegian: comm akseptant c
Portuguese: aceitador m
Russian: акцепта́нт (ru) m ‎(akceptánt)
Serbo-Croatian: akceptor (sh) m
Spanish: aceptador (es) m

Latin

Verb

acceptor

first-person singular present passive indicative of acceptō

References

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, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “acceptor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.