Acceptor is an English word with synonyms like compound. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Acceptor meaning
- One who accepts.
- One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
- An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
Synonyms of Acceptor
Using Acceptor
- The main meaning on this page is: One who accepts. | One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted. | An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
- Useful related words include: compound, chemical compound, drawee.
- In the example corpus, acceptor often appears in combinations such as: electron acceptor, acceptor and, bond acceptor.
Context around Acceptor
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 10 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Acceptor
- In this selection, "acceptor" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, electron, proton, cation, based, compound and impurities stand out and add context to how "acceptor" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an electron acceptor and a proton acceptor. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "acceptor" sits close to words such as abbe, abdollahian and abergavenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with acceptor
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
NAD + is the electron acceptor in the oxidation reaction. (9 words)
How this is performed depends on which external electron acceptor is available. (12 words)
That freed electron is transferred to the primary electron-acceptor molecule, pheophytin. (12 words)
Below is a schematic outline of the cycle: * The citric acid cycle begins with the transfer of a two-carbon acetyl group from acetyl-CoA to the four-carbon acceptor compound (oxaloacetate) to form a six-carbon compound (citrate). (39 words)
Guanine has the C-6 carbonyl group that acts as the hydrogen bond acceptor, while a group at N-1 and the amino group at C-2 act as the hydrogen bond donors. (33 words)
Because the chlorine is the one reduced, it is considered the electron acceptor, or in other words, induces oxidation in the sodium – thus the chlorine gas is considered the oxidizing agent. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Perhaps most useful would be to remember cathode corresponds to cation (acceptor) and anode corresponds to anion (acceptor).
A Lewis acid is a species that accepts a pair of electrons from another species; in other words, it is an electron pair acceptor.
Because of its high electronic affinity citation it is one of the most common electron acceptors used in donor/acceptor based solar cells.
Because the chlorine is the one reduced, it is considered the electron acceptor, or in other words, induces oxidation in the sodium – thus the chlorine gas is considered the oxidizing agent.
Below is a schematic outline of the cycle: * The citric acid cycle begins with the transfer of a two-carbon acetyl group from acetyl-CoA to the four-carbon acceptor compound (oxaloacetate) to form a six-carbon compound (citrate).
For example, in E. coli, there are two different types of ubiquinol oxidase using oxygen as an electron acceptor.
For instance, phosgene is a highly reactive nucleophile acceptor, which makes it an excellent reagent for polymerizing diols and diamines to produce polycarbonate and polyurethane plastics.
Guanine has the C-6 carbonyl group that acts as the hydrogen bond acceptor, while a group at N-1 and the amino group at C-2 act as the hydrogen bond donors.
How this is performed depends on which external electron acceptor is available.
In a hydrogen bond, the electronegative atom not covalently attached to the hydrogen is named proton acceptor, whereas the one covalently bound to the hydrogen is named the proton donor.
Manganese(IV) oxide was used in the original type of dry cell battery as an electron acceptor from zinc, and is the blackish material in carbon–zinc type flashlight cells.
NAD + is the electron acceptor in the oxidation reaction.
Reactive oxygen species further Molecular oxygen is an ideal terminal electron acceptor because it is a strong oxidizing agent.
Semiconductors doped with donor impurities are called n-type, while those doped with acceptor impurities are known as p-type.
Some sites may require the addition of an electron acceptor while others require microbe supplementation ( bioaugmentation ).
That freed electron is transferred to the primary electron-acceptor molecule, pheophytin.
The acid is referred to as a proton donor and the base as a proton acceptor.
The binding specificity comes from the sequence and structure of the cis-elements e.g. in HIV-1 there are many donor and acceptor splice sites.
The charge inducing the bending is balanced by a layer of negative acceptor-ion charge (right).
The menaquinone, with the help of another enzyme, then transfers these two electrons to a suitable oxidant, such fumarate or nitrate (also called an electron acceptor).
Common combinations with acceptor
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: