accession
A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
Example
“a king's accession to a confederacy”
Other meanings
Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.
Related words
- accessional
- accessioner
- nonaccession
- reaccession
- accession number
- accession country
Word history
From Latin "accessiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “accession” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.