accession

1. 1.

   make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library

   Broaderrecord

   recording

Other forms of accession

plural

accessions·

past tense

accessioned·

present participle

accessioning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about accession

What does accession mean?

accession means "a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accession?

accession has 3 syllables: ac-ces-sion. The stress falls on "ces". In IPA it is /əkˈsɛʃən/.

What is another word for accession?

Close synonyms include addition, assenting, entree, access, admission. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accession a common word?

accession is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with accession?

9 words rhyme with accession. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.