ACCESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accession mean? 

• ACCESSION (noun)
  The noun ACCESSION has 6 senses:

1. a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)

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

4. agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)

5. the right to enter

6. the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)

  Familiarity information: ACCESSION used as a noun is common.

• ACCESSION (verb)
  The verb ACCESSION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ACCESSION used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCESSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Context example:

the art collection grew through accession

Hypernyms ("accession" is a kind of...):

growth; increase; increment (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("accession" is a kind of...):

property right (the legal right of ownership)

Domain category:

civil law (the body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Something added to what you already have

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

accession; addition

Context example:

he was a new addition to the staff

Hypernyms ("accession" is a kind of...):

acquisition (something acquired)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

accession; assenting

Context example:

assenting to the Congressional determination

Hypernyms ("accession" is a kind of...):

agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)

Derivation:

accede (to agree or express agreement)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The right to enter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

access; accession; admission; admittance; entree

Hypernyms ("accession" is a kind of...):

right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accession"):

door (anything providing a means of access (or escape))

Sense 6

Meaning:

The act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

accession; rise to power

Context example:

Elizabeth's accession in 1558

Hypernyms ("accession" is a kind of...):

attainment (the act of achieving an aim)

Derivation:

accede (take on duties or office)

access (reach or gain access to)

• ACCESSION (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they accession    ... he / she / it accessions   
Past simple: accessioned   
Past participle: accessioned   
-ing form: accessioning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "accession" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Domain category:

recording; transcription (the act of making a record (especially an audio record))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

"Now, Mr. Malone," he continued, with a great accession of dignity, "this way, if YOU please."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The accession of fortune, the discovery of my relations, followed in due order.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The only change in it that they could notice was an accession of alertness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He gave us to understand that in our children we lived again, and that, under the pressure of pecuniary difficulties, any accession to their number was doubly welcome.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It presents information on official nomenclature, aliases, sequence accessions, phenotypes, EC numbers, MIM numbers, UniGene clusters, homology, map locations, and related web sites.

(LocusLink, NCI Thesaurus)

Fanny's spirits lived on it half the morning, deriving some accession of pleasure from its writer being himself to go away.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mrs Smith's enjoyments were not spoiled by this improvement of income, with some improvement of health, and the acquisition of such friends to be often with, for her cheerfulness and mental alacrity did not fail her; and while these prime supplies of good remained, she might have bid defiance even to greater accessions of worldly prosperity.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The circumstance which chiefly availed was the marriage of his daughter with a man of fortune and consequence, which took place in the course of the summer—an accession of dignity that threw him into a fit of good humour, from which he did not recover till after Eleanor had obtained his forgiveness of Henry, and his permission for him to be a fool if he liked it!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Emma spoke her pity so very kindly, that with a sudden accession of gay thought, he cried, “Ah! by the bye,” then sinking his voice, and looking demure for the moment—“I hope Mr. Knightley is well?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I will write to Madeira the moment I get home, and tell my uncle John I am going to be married, and to whom: if I had but a prospect of one day bringing Mr. Rochester an accession of fortune, I could better endure to be kept by him now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)