A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
a king's accession to a confederacy
Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the first century of the Christian Aera, was the province of Britain.
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).
To make a record of (additions to a collection); to add (something) to a collection (usually a museum's or archive's collection).
Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.
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