adopter : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: adopter	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for adopter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adopter n a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child Synonym(s): adoptive parent, adopter
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adopter \A*dopt"er\, n. 1. One who adopts. 2. (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also {adapter}.]