Acceptor

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  • noun. One who signs a draft or bill of exchange.
  • noun. An atom that accepts or incorporates a part from a donor, especially an atom that incorporates electrons to form a bond with another atom.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as accepter, but more frequent in commercial and legal use.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who accepts.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who accepts.
  • noun. One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
  • noun. An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
  • noun. A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
  • noun. A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor.
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  • noun. the person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures
  • noun. (chemistry) in the formation of a coordinate bond it is the compound to which electrons are donated
  • Word Usage
    "In reality tRNAs contain acceptor stems at both their 3 'and 5' ends."
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