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Accession
//ækˈseʃ.ən// noun, verb
Definitions
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
- 7 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
- 8 something added to what you already have wordnet
- 9 The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. countable, uncountable
- 10 (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement wordnet
- 11 The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity. countable, uncountable
"her accession to the throne"
- 12 a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group) wordnet
- 13 The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm. countable, uncountable
- 14 Agreement. countable, uncountable
- 15 Access; admittance. countable, uncountable
- 16 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
Etymology
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.
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