accession

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ækˈsɛʃ.ən/, /əˈsɛʃ.ən/

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• (Australian) IPA^(key): /ækˈseʃ.ən/, /əˈseʃ.ən/

Noun

accession (countable and uncountable, plural accessions)

1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.

   a king's accession to a confederacy

2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
   • 1776–1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter 1, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 5:

     The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the first century of the Christian Aera, was the province of Britain.

   • 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. xli,^[1]

     […] armed vessels being provided, their crews were soon recruited by accessions from the needy or adventurous, the discontented or the bold.

   1. Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.

      Antonyms: deaccession, deacquisition

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).
4. (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.

   accession to the European Union

6. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.

   her accession to the throne

   • 1943 March and April, “L.N.E.R. New Mixed-Traffic 4-6-0 Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 104:

     This is the 6 ft. 4-6-0 engine No. 8301, Springbok, the second design produced by Mr. Edward Thompson since his accession to office as Chief Mechanical Engineer.

   • 2022 September 9, Caroline Davies, “Charles to be proclaimed King at St James’s Palace on Saturday”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Charles will be formally proclaimed King at a historic Accession Council in an ancient ceremony at St James’s Palace on Saturday, it has been announced.

7. (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
8. Agreement.
9. Access; admittance.
10. A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
11. (Scotland) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.

Derived terms

• accessional
• accession country
• accessioner
• accession number
• nonaccession
• reaccession

Translations

a coming to

• Bulgarian: приобщаване n (priobštavane), присъединение (bg) n (prisăedinenie), принаждане n (prinaždane), причисление n (pričislenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加入 (zh) (jiārù), 加盟 (zh) (jiāméng)

• Danish: tiltrædelse
• Dutch: toetreding (nl) f
• Estonian: ühinemine
• Finnish: liittyminen (fi)
• French: accession (fr) f
• Georgian: გაწევრიანება (gac̣evrianeba)
• German: Beitritt (de) m
• Japanese: 加盟 (ja) (かめい, kamei), 加入 (ja) (かにゅう, kanyū)
• Korean: 가맹(加盟) (ko) (gamaeng), 가입(加入) (ko) (gaip)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tiltredelse m

• Russian: вступле́ние (ru) n (vstuplénije), присоедине́ние (ru) n (prisojedinénije), акце́ссия (ru) f (akcéssija)
• Spanish: ascenso (es) m
• Swedish: tillträde (sv) n, anslutning (sv) c
• Turkish: katılım (tr)
• Ukrainian: вступ m (vstup), приє́днання n (pryjédnannja)

increase by something added

• Bulgarian: прираст (bg) m (prirast)
• Finnish: lisäys (fi)
• German: Zuwachs (de) m
• Portuguese: acessão (pt) f
• Swedish: nyanskaffning c, nyförvärv (sv) c
• Turkish: artma (tr)

(legal) mode of acquiring property

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: natrekking f
• French: accession (fr) f
• German: Verbindung (de) f
• Hungarian: áradmány (hu)
• Indonesian: akresi
• Italian: accessione f
• Portuguese: acessão (pt) f
• Spanish: accesión (es) f

(legal) act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ภาคยานุวัติ (pâak-ká-yaa-nú-wát)

act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity

• Azerbaijani: cülus, taxta çıxma
• Bulgarian: възцаряване (bg) n (văzcarjavane), възкачване n (văzkačvane), въздигане n (văzdigane)
• Danish: tiltrædelse
• Esperanto: surtroniĝo, ĉefiĝo
• Finnish: valtaannousu (fi)
• German: Antritt (de) m, Besteigung (de) f, Thronbesteigung (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tiltredelse m

• Russian: воцарение (ru) n (vocarenije)
• Swedish: tilträdelse
• Turkish: göreve gelme, tahta çıkma

(medicine) invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease

• Bulgarian: пристъп (bg) m (pristăp)

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); to add (something) to a collection (usually a museum's or archive's collection).

   Antonym: deaccession

   Coordinate term: acquire

Derived terms

• accessionable
• unaccessioned

See also

• ascension

Further reading

• “accession”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “accession”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “accession, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ascencios

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.sɛ.sjɔ̃/ ~ /ak.se.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

accession f (plural accessions)

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

   accession sociale à la propriété ― assisted home-ownership scheme

Further reading

• “accession”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012