accession

== English == === Etymology === Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646. === Pronunciation === (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /ækˈsɛʃ.ən/, /əˈsɛʃ.ən/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ækˈseʃ.ən/, /əˈseʃ.ən/ === Noun === accession (countable and uncountable, plural accessions) A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without. 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. xli,[1] […] armed vessels being provided, their crews were soon recruited by accessions from the needy or adventurous, the discontented or the bold. Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added. Antonyms: deaccession, deacquisition (law) 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). (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity. (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm. Agreement. Access; admittance. A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks. (Scotland) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === accession (third-person singular simple present accessions, present participle accessioning, simple past and past participle accessioned) (transitive) To make a record of (additions to a collection); to add (something) to a collection (usually a museum's or archive's collection). Antonym: deaccession Coordinate term: acquire ==== Derived terms ==== === See also === ascension === References === === Further reading === “accession”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “accession”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. “accession, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC. === Anagrams === Ascencios == French == === Pronunciation === === Noun === accession f (plural accessions) accession (to throne) (law) accession accession sociale à la propriété ― assisted home-ownership scheme === Further reading === “accession”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012