accession

Meanings

Noun

• A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined
• Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.

Verb

• To make a record of (additions to a collection).

Related

Opposite words

• deaccession

Origin

• Ultimately from Latin accessiō, from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.