What does "accession" mean?

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.

What is a synonym for "accession"?

Common synonyms include: accedence, acceptance, access, access, accessory, accompaniment.

//ækˈseʃ.ən// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Noun

1
A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined. countable, uncountable
"a king's accession to a confederacy"
2
the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne) wordnet
3
Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without. countable, uncountable
"The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the first century of the Christian Aera, was the province of Britain."
4
the right to enter wordnet
5
Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.; Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added. countable, uncountable

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6
agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) wordnet
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A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). countable, uncountable
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something added to what you already have wordnet
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The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. countable, uncountable
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(civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement wordnet
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The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity. countable, uncountable
"her accession to the throne"
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a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group) wordnet
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The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm. countable, uncountable
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Agreement. countable, uncountable
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Access; admittance. countable, uncountable
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A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks. countable, uncountable
17
Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action. Scotland, countable, uncountable

Verb

1
To make a record of (additions to a collection); to add (something) to a collection (usually a museum's or archive's collection). transitive
2
make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library wordnet