accession
English
Etymology
From Latin accessio, from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /æk.ˈsɛ.ʃən/, /əˈsɛ.ʃən/
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Noun
accession (countable and uncountable, plural accessions)
- A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined
- a king's accession to a confederacy
- Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
- 1783, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 1, Chapter 1, p. 5,
- The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the first century of the Christian Aera, was the province of Britain.
- 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,
- […] armed vessels being provided, their crews were soon recruited by accessions from the needy or adventurous, the discontented or the bold.
- 1783, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 1, Chapter 1, p. 5,
- (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.
Translations
a coming to
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increase by something added
(legal) act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force
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act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity
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(medicine) invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease
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).
Antonyms
Further reading
French
Noun
accession f (plural accessions)
Further reading
- “accession” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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