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/ (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. accession to the European Union 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 === IPA(key): /ak.sɛ.sjɔ̃/ ~ /ak.se.sjɔ̃/ === 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