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Increment vs Accession - What's the difference?

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Increment is a related term of accession.


As nouns the difference between increment and accession

is that increment is increment while accession is a coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

As a verb accession is

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

increment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of increasing or becoming greater.
  • * Woodward
    • the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies
  • * Coleridge
    • A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
  • (heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
  • The amount of increase.
  • (rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, think on these things."

    • Derived terms

    * incremence (rare) * incremental

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
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    • Usage notes

    * Used in many technical fields, especially in mathematics and computing.

    Antonyms

    * decrement

    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

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