accession
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.
Inflected forms:
form: accessions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: accessions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accessioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accessioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: accessioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a king's accession to a confederacy
gloss: Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: accession to the European Union
gloss: The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: her accession to the throne
This is the 6 ft. 4-6-0 engine No. 8301, Springbok, the second design produced by Mr. Edward Thompson since his accession to office as Chief Mechanical Engineer.
Charles will be formally proclaimed King at a historic Accession Council in an ancient ceremony at St James’s Palace on Saturday, it has been announced.
gloss: The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Agreement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Access; admittance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
countable
uncountable
gloss: To make a record of (additions to a collection); to add (something) to a collection (usually a museum's or archive's collection).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: accessional
accession country
accessioner
accession number
nonaccession
reaccession
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: прираст
roman: prirast
lang: Finnish
word: lisäys
lang: German
word: Zuwachs
lang: Portuguese
word: acessão
lang: Swedish
word: nyanskaffning
lang: Swedish
word: nyförvärv
lang: Turkish
word: artma