| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| access 1, accession (nn.) |
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| The main sense of access is “the means or opportunity to get to something,” as in She gained access to the attic. Accession means “an acquiring” or “an increase” and has two specialized senses: “assuming some high office or title,” as in Her accession to the throne followed her father’s lingering death; and librarians’ specialized sense, “the entering of books in the library’s records in the order of their being acquired,” as in The order of accession is always chronological. It also means such books: Shelve the new accessions here. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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