accession

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Synonyms: accension, ascension, recession, succession, secession, cession, decession, abscession, deaccession, acception, incession

Antonyms: accension, ascension, recession, succession, secession, cession, decession, abscession, deaccession, acception, incession

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Noun

1. A coming to; the act of [[accede|acceding]] and becoming [[joined]].
2. [[increase|Increase]] by something [[add]]ed; that which is added; [[augmentation]] from without.
3. {{lb|en|legal}} A [[mode]] of [[acquire|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. {{lb|en|legal}} The [[act]] by which one [[power]] becomes [[party]] to [[engagement]]s already [[in force]] between other powers.
5. {{senseid|en|advent of officeholding}} The act of coming to or reaching a [[throne]], an [[office]]{{,}} or [[dignity]].
6. {{lb|en|medicine}} The [[invasion]], [[approach]], or [[commencement]] of a disease; a [[fit]] or [[paroxysm]].
7. [[agreement|Agreement]].
8. [[access|Access]]; [[admittance]].
9. A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in [[genebank]]s.<ref>https://opgc.osu.edu/node/88</ref>
10. {{lb|en|Scotland}} [[complicity|Complicity]], [[concurrence]] or [[assent]] in some action.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To make a [[record]] of (additions to a [[collection]]); to add (something) to a collection (usually a museum's or archive's collection).

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