accession

Meanings

Plural: accessions

Noun

• a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)
  • "the art collection grew through accession"
• (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
• something added to what you already have
  • "the librarian shelved the new accessions"
• agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
  • "accession to such demands would set a dangerous precedent"
• the right to enter
• the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)
  • "Elizabeth's accession in 1558"
• A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
• Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
• Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
• Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.
• 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

• make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library
• To make a record of (additions to a collection); to add (something) to a collection (usually a museum's or archive's collection).

Synonyms

access, addition, admission, admittance, assenting, entree, rise to power

Antonyms

deaccession, deacquisition

Related Words

ascension