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NOUN (6)

1. a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group);
- Example: "the art collection grew through accession"

2. (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement;

3. something added to what you already have;
- Example: "the librarian shelved the new accessions"
- Example: "he was a new addition to the staff"
[syn: accession, addition]

4. agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly);
- Example: "accession to such demands would set a dangerous precedent"
- Example: "assenting to the Congressional determination"
[syn: accession, assenting]

5. the right to enter;
[syn: entree, access, accession, admission, admittance]

6. the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne);
- Example: "Elizabeth's accession in 1558"
[syn: accession, rise to power]


VERB (1)

1. make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Accession \Ac*ces"sion\, n. [L. accessio, fr. accedere: cf. F.
   accession. See Accede.]
   1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as,
      a king's accession to a confederacy.
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   2. Increase by something added; that which is added;
      augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or
      territory.
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            The only accession which the Roman empire received
            was the province of Britain.          --Gibbon.
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   3. (Law)
      (a) 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.
      (b) The act by which one power becomes party to
          engagements already in force between other powers.
          --Kent.
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   4. 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.
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   5. (Med.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a
      disease; a fit or paroxysm. AS
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   Syn: Increase; addition; augmentation; enlargement.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

185 Moby Thesaurus words for "accession":
   accedence, acceptance, access, accessory, accompaniment, accretion,
   accrual, accruement, accumulation, acquiescence, acquirement,
   acquisition, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive,
   additory, additum, adjunct, adjunction, adjuvant, advance, advent,
   affixation, afflux, affluxion, agglutination, aggrandizement,
   agreement, agreement in principle, amplification, annex,
   annexation, anointing, anointment, appanage, appendage, appendant,
   appointment, appreciation, approach, approaching, appropinquation,
   approximation, appulse, appurtenance, appurtenant, arrogation,
   ascent, assent, assentation, assignment, assumption, attachment,
   attainment, augment, augmentation, authorization, ballooning,
   bloating, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, coda, coming,
   coming by, coming near, coming toward, complement, compliance,
   concomitant, concurrence, consecration, consent, continuation,
   corollary, coronation, crescendo, delegation, deputation,
   development, dragging down, earnings, edema, election, elevation,
   empowerment, enlargement, enthronement, expansion, extension,
   extrapolation, fixture, flood, flowing toward, forthcoming, gain,
   gaining, general agreement, getting, getting hold of, greatening,
   growth, gush, hearty assent, hike, imminence, inauguration,
   increase, increment, induction, inflation, installation,
   installment, instatement, investiture, joining, jump, junction,
   juxtaposition, leap, legitimate succession, making, moneygetting,
   moneygrubbing, moneymaking, mounting, multiplication, nearing,
   nearness, obtainment, obtention, offshoot, oncoming, pendant,
   placement, prefixation, procural, procurance, procuration,
   procurement, productiveness, proliferation, proximation, raise,
   reinforcement, rise, securement, seizure, side effect, side issue,
   snowballing, spread, succession, suffixation, superaddition,
   superfetation, superjunction, superposition, supplement,
   supplementation, support, surge, swelling, tailpiece,
   taking office, taking over, trover, tumescence, undergirding,
   uniting, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, usurpation,
   warm assent, waxing, welcome, widening, winning