different between increase vs accession

English

Alternative forms

• encrease (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English increse, borrowed from Anglo-Norman encreistre, from Latin increscere (“increase”), present active infinitive of incresc?, from in (“in, on”) + cresc? (“grow”).

The verb is from Middle English incresen, encresen.

Pronunciation

• (verb): enPR: ?nkr?s?, IPA^(key): /?n?k?i?s/
• (noun): enPR: ?n?kr?s, IPA^(key): /??nk?i?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s
• Hyphenation: in?crease

Verb

increase (third-person singular simple present increases, present participle increasing, simple past and past participle increased)

1. (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.

   • The waters increased and bare up the ark.

2. (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
3. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     Fishes are infinitely more numerous of increasing than Beasts or Birds, as appears by the numerous Spawn.

4. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.

Synonyms

• (become larger): wax, go up, grow, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly); See also Thesaurus:increase
• (make larger): increment, raise, up (informal); See also Thesaurus:augment
• (multiply by production of young): proliferate, propagate, teem
• (to show more of the surface): wax

Antonyms

• (become larger): decrease, drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink; See also Thesaurus:decrease
• (make larger): cut, decrease, decrement, lower, reduce; See also Thesaurus:diminish
• (multiply by production of young):
• (to show more of the surface): wane

Derived terms

• increasable
• Increase

Translations

Noun

increase (countable and uncountable, plural increases)

1. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     She says an increase in melting from climate change may put that at risk.

2. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
3. Offspring, progeny
4. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

Synonyms

• (amount by which a quantity is increased): gain, increment, raise (US, said of pay), rise; See also Thesaurus:adjunct or Thesaurus:acquisition
• (act or process of becoming larger): enlargement, expansion; See also Thesaurus:augmentation

Antonyms

• (amount by which a quantity is increased): cut, decrease, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage; See also Thesaurus:decrement
• (act or process of becoming larger): decline, decrease, diminishment; See also Thesaurus:diminution

Translations

Further reading

• increase in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• increase in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• increase at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Cairenes, Ceresian, cerasine, resiance

English

Etymology

From Latin accessio, from acc?d? (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æk.?s?.??n/, /??s?.??n/
• (US)

Noun

accession (countable and uncountable, plural accessions)

1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
   • 1783, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 1, Chapter 1, p. 5,^[1]

     The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the first century of the Christian Aera, was the province of Britain.

   • 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. xli,^[2]

     […] armed vessels being provided, their crews were soon recruited by accessions from the needy or adventurous, the discontented or the bold.

3. (law) 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).
4. (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
5. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
6. (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
7. Agreement.
8. Access; admittance.
9. A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.

Translations

Verb

accession (third-person singular simple present accessions, present participle accessioning, simple past and past participle accessioned)

1. (transitive) To make a record of (additions to a collection).

Antonyms

• deaccession

Further reading

• accession at OneLook Dictionary Search
• accession in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Ascencios

French

Noun

accession f (plural accessions)

1. accession (to throne)
2. (law) accession

Further reading

• “accession” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).