|a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.| |a fool or
simpleton; ninny.| |1.||commerce the person or organization on
which a draft or bill of exchange is drawn after liability has
been accepted, usually by signature| |2.||electronics Compare
donor Also called: acceptor impurity an impurity, such as
gallium, added to a semiconductor material to increase its
p-type conductivity by increasing the number of holes in the
semiconductor| |3.||electronics a circuit tuned to accept a
particular frequency| |4.||chem the atom or group that accepts
electrons in a coordinate bond| acceptor ac·cep·tor or
ac·cept·er (āk-sěp'tər) The reactant in an induced reaction that
has an increased rate of reaction in the presence of the
inductor. The atom that contributes no electrons to a covalent
bond. |acceptor (āk-sěp'tər) Pronunciation Key