Definition of "accession"

accession

/ækˈsɛʃ.ən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural accessions
1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
  Quotations
  The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the first century of the Christian Aera, was the province of Britain.
  1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter 1, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], page 5
  […] armed vessels being provided, their crews were soon recruited by accessions from the needy or adventurous, the discontented or the bold.
  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
3. (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).
4. (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
5. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
  Quotations
  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.
  1943 March and April, “L.N.E.R. New Mixed-Traffic 4-6-0 Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 104
  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.
  2022 September 9, Caroline Davies, “Charles to be proclaimed King at St James’s Palace on Saturday”, in The Guardian‎
6. (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
7. Agreement.
8. Access; admittance.
9. A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
10. (Scotland) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
verb
third-person singular simple present accessions, present participle accessioning, simple past and past participle accessioned
1. (transitive) To make a record of (additions to a collection).

Definition of "accession"

accession

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