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/

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• (General 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.

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.
5. 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.

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

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

a coming to

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加入 (zh) (jiārù)

• 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)
• 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

• 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

• Thai: ภาคยานุวัติ (pâak-ká-yaa-nú-wát)

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

• 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

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).

Antonyms

• deaccession

Derived terms

• 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

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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.