accession

Meanings

1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
3. Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.
4. 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).
5. The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
6. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
7. 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. Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.

1. To make a record of (additions to a collection); to add (something) to a collection (usually a museum's or archive's collection).

Etymology

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

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