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Accession vs Appendage - What's the difference?

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Accession is a related term of appendage.


As nouns the difference between accession and appendage

is that accession is a coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy while appendage is an external body part that projects from the body.

As a verb accession

is to make a record of (additions to a collection).

accession

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
  • Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
  • * (rfdate)
  • The only accession that the Roman empire received was the province of Britain.
  • (legal) 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).
  • (legal) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
  • The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
  • (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
  • Agreement.
  • Access; admittance.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a record of (additions to a collection).
  • Antonyms

    * deaccession

    appendage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an external body part that projects from the body
  • a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism
  • a part that is joined to something larger
  • Synonyms

    * extremity, member * outgrowth, process