accession

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
2. (countable, uncountable) Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
3. (countable, uncountable) Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
4. (countable, uncountable) 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).
5. (countable, uncountable) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
6. (countable, uncountable) The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
7. (countable, uncountable) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
8. (countable, uncountable) Agreement.
9. (countable, uncountable) Access; admittance.
10. (countable, uncountable) A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
11. (Scotland, countable, uncountable) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.

Verb

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

Opposite of

deaccession#Noun, deacquisition#Noun, deaccession#Verb

Synonyms

acquisition

admission

access

entry

admittance

gain

growth

inheritance

succession

approach

addition

accretion

entree

increase

entrance

assenting

acceptance

development

acquirement

rise to power

reception

register

augmentation

asset

aggrandizement

assault

familiarity

attack

👊

expansion

badge

ascent

arrival

affiliation

approaching

enrollment

adhesion

appendix

door

🚪

denote

anode

encounter

enlargement

adherence

enthronement

acquaintance

dash

💨

count

🔢

annexation

connection

conceding

Translations

Zuwachs

accession

acquisition

entrada

prooi

acceso

accesión

accroissement

toename

accès

aquisição

buit

abord

toegang

entrée

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ækˈsɛʃ.ən/

Etymology

Cognate with French: accession

In summary

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