accession
IPA: ʌksˈɛʃʌn
noun
- A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
- Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
- (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).
- (law) 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.
- (medicine) 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.
- (Scotland) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
verb
- (transitive) To make a record of (additions to a collection).
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