accession vs algebra

accession

noun
  • A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks. 

  • 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). 

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

  • The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity. 

  • The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm. 

  • Access; admittance. 

  • Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action. 

  • Agreement. 

  • The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. 

  • Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without. 

verb
  • To make a record of (additions to a collection). 

algebra

noun
  • A collection of subsets of a given set, such that this collection contains the empty set, and the collection is closed under unions and complements (and thereby also under intersections and differences). 

  • A system or process, that is like algebra by substituting one thing for another, or in using signs, symbols, etc., to represent concepts or ideas. 

  • An algebraic structure consisting of a module over a commutative ring (or a vector space over a field) along with an additional binary operation that is bilinear over module (or vector) addition and scalar multiplication. 

  • A universal algebra. 

  • One of several other types of mathematical structure. 

  • The study of algebraic structures. 

  • The surgical treatment of a dislocated or fractured bone. Also (countable): a dislocation or fracture. 

  • A system for computation using letters or other symbols to represent numbers, with rules for manipulating these symbols. 

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