Definition of "accession" in 英语

noun

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.

   • 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, […] 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

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.

verb

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).