Accession

Pronunciation

• IPA: /æk.ˈsÉ›.ʃən/

Origin

• First attested in 1646.
• From Latin accessio, from accÄ“dō (English accede). Cognate to French accession.

Full definition of accession

Noun

1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
• unknown date Edward GibbonThe only accession that the Roman empire received was the province of Britain.
3. (legal) 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. (legal) 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.
6. (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
7. Agreement.
8. Access; admittance.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make a record of (additions to a collection).

Antonyms

• deaccession