accession
Other forms: accessions; accessioning; accessioned
Accession is the act of advancing into a position. Being elected class president is a kind of accession.
Accession originally referred to a queen or king taking the throne. From the Latin term, accessionem, meaning "joining or increasing,” accession may refer to the gaining of access to any formal position, group, or right. It can also mean “agreement” — think of it as “joining in.” Accession may also refer to property — either something that increases your original collection, or the right to all of your property even through growth — such as the golden egg your new hen laid.
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the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)“Elizabeth's accession in 1558”
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rise to power
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attainment
the act of achieving an aim
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attainment
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the right to enter
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(civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
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property right
the legal right of ownership
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property right
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a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)
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something added to what you already have“the librarian shelved the new accessions”
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addition
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acquisition
something acquired
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acquisition
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make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library
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agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
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Science journalist Charles Seife discusses the history of the number zero, from its origin as an Eastern philosophical concept to its rise as an important tool in mathematics to its current threat to modern physics.
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