accession

English

Etymology

Latin accessio, from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /əkˈsɛʃən/

Noun

accession (plural accessions)

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; as, an accession of wealth or territory.

   • The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain. - Edward Gibbon

3. (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). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.
4. (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers - Kent
5. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.
6. (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

Translations

a coming to

Dutch: toetreding (nl) f. Estonian: ühinemine (et) French: accession (fr) f. German: Beitritt (de) m.

Russian: вступление (ru) (vstuplénije) n., присоединение (ru) (prisojedinénije) n. Spanish: ascenso (es) f.

Verb

accession (third-person singular simple present accessions, present participle accessioning, simple past and past participle accessioned)

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

External links

• accession at OneLook Dictionary Search
• accession in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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French

Noun

accession f. (plural accessions)

1. accession (to throne)
2. (law) accession

   accession sociale à la propriété — assisted home-ownership scheme