Accession

Quick meaning: Accession is a noun meaning A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.

Meaning

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.

More Meanings

1. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
2. (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
3. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
4. (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
5. Agreement.
6. Access; admittance.
7. (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).

Example Sentences

her accession to the throne

accession to the European Union

a king's accession to a confederacy

The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the first century of the Christian Aera, was the province of Britain.

Word Forms

• accessions
• accessioning
• accessioned

Synonyms for accession

Depending on context, synonyms include addition, assenting.

Antonyms for accession

Common opposites include deaccession.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include addition, assenting, joining, inclusion, union, integration.

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