accession

accession has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
• n.. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory.
• n.. 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). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.
• n.. The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
• n.. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.
• n.. The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
• n.. the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne); "Elizabeth's accession in 1558"
• n.. the right to enter
• n.. agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly); "accession to such demands would set a dangerous precedent"; "assenting to the Congressional determination"
• n.. something added to what you already have; "the librarian shelved the new accessions"; "he was a new addition to the staff"
• n.. (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
• n.. a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group); "the art collection grew through accession"