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.
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Legal, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. noun An ordered test or group of tests on a particular specimen which has been formally received by a lab or other health care service and has received an accession number. verb To input the demographics for a particular patientâs analysis into an information system; to log or document receiving a specimen in the lab.