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Accension
- - The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.
Acception
- - Acceptation; the received meaning.
Accession
- noun - (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
- a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group); "the art collection grew through accession"
- agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly); "accession to such demands would set a dangerous precedent"; "assenting to the Congressional determination"
- make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library
- something added to what you already have; "the librarian shelved the new accessions"; "he was a new addition to the staff"
- the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne); "Elizabeth's accession in 1558"
- the right to enter
Accordion
- noun - a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
Accretion
- noun - (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
- (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- Any gradual increase in size as through growth or external addition.
- something contributing to growth or increase; "he scraped away the accretions of paint"; "the central city surrounded by recent accretions"
Actuation
- noun - the act of propelling
Acylation
- noun - the process of introducing an acyl group into a compound
Addiction
- noun - (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master; "under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery"
- an abnormally strong craving
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
Adduction
- noun - (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body
Ademption
- - The revocation or taking away of a grant, donation, legacy, or the like.