Acceptor
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Acceptor may refer to:
- Acceptor (accounting)Acceptor (accounting)In accounting, the acceptor, also known as the drawee, is the addressee of a bill of exchange. The acceptor is the person primarily responsible for the payment of the amount mentioned in the bill to the drawer of it on the date of its maturity....
, the addressee of a bill of exchange. - In the Indian Contract Act of 1872, the acceptor is the person to whom a proposal is made, and who has communicated his or her acceptance of the said proposal.
- In chemistry, the electron acceptorElectron acceptorAn electron acceptor is a chemical entity that accepts electrons transferred to it from another compound. It is an oxidizing agent that, by virtue of its accepting electrons, is itself reduced in the process....
is an atom or compound to which electrons are donated during the formation of a coordinate covalent bondCoordinate covalent bondA dipolar bond, also known as dative covalent bond or coordinate bond is a kind of 2-centre, 2-electron covalent bond in which the two electrons derive from the same atom. Typically, a dipolar bond is formed when a Lewis base donates a pair of electrons to a Lewis acid. This description of bonding...
. - Acceptor (semiconductors)Acceptor (semiconductors)In semiconductor physics, an acceptor is a dopant atom that when added to a semiconductor can form p-type regions.For example, when silicon , having four valence electrons, needs to be doped as a p-type semiconductor, elements from group III like boron or aluminium , having three valence...
. - In sequential logicSequential logicIn digital circuit theory, sequential logic is a type of logic circuit whose output depends not only on the present input but also on the history of the input. This is in contrast to combinational logic, whose output is a function of, and only of, the present input...
, an Acceptor is a type of finite state machine.