2. Noun. A collection of laboratory tests performed on a single sample. ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of accession) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Accessions
1. accession [v] - See also: accession
Lexicographical Neighbors of Accessions
Literary usage of Accessions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"The ratio of the volcanic products to the accessions and to the derivatives.—It
is conceived that in the late stages of the earth's growth the amount of ..."
2. Manual of Library Economy by James Duff Brown (1907)
"accessions Number Book (Section 224). This will show at a glance the next ...
In cases where the stock book is also the order book, the accessions number ..."
3. Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief by Wdward Edwards (1884)
"Notices of some other contemporaneous accessions. ... These two accessions, taken
conjointly, raised the Museum collection of books ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1898)
"LATE accessions TO MUSEUMS THE HASKELL MUSEUM. The latest accessions to Haskell
Museum represent three fields of excavation, two of which were worked by the ..."
5. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"there was no diminution of hi» army (except by disease), but accessions to it ;
for many of the independent Thracians, though uninvited, followed him for ..."
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