After just a little more than a year (55 weeks, to be precise), it's already the fourth best-selling album of the last 10 years, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Only Norah Jones' Come Away With Me, Eminem's The Eminem Show and Usher's Confessions have sold more copies in the last 10 years.
accession number. Sequential number assigned to each record or volume as it is added to a database (such as a library catalog or index) and which indicates the chronological order of its acquisition. Compare with acquisition number. Use 'accession number' in a Sentence.
Accession may take place either in a natural way, such as the growth of fruit or the pregnancy of animals, or in an artificial way. 1  The various methods may be classified as: 2  Land to land by accretion or alluvion. 3  Moveables to land or fixtures. 4  Moveables to moveables. 5  Moveables added to by the art or industry of man.