Accession vs Quiescence - What's the difference?
accession | quiescence |
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)
(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.
The state of being quiescent; dormancy.
Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.
*1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
*:I pray you, Salviatus, to tell me ... the cause of the Pendulum's quiescence .
(microbiology) When a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
As nouns the difference between accession and quiescence
is that accession is a coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy while quiescence is the state of being quiescent; dormancy.As a verb accession
is to make a record of (additions to a collection).accession
English
Noun
(en noun)- The only accession that the Roman empire received was the province of Britain.