资料来源 : pyDict
合并,附加,附加物
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Annexation \An`nex*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. annexation. See {Annex},
v. t.]
1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or
appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the
annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels
to the freehold.
2.
(a) (Law) The union of property with a freehold so as to
become a fixture. Bouvier.
(b) (Scots Law) The appropriation of lands or rents to the
crown. --Wharton.
资料来源 : WordNet®
annexation
n 1: incorporation by joining or uniting [syn: {appropriation}]
2: the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory)
by conquest or occupation; "the French annexation of
Madagascar as a colony in 1896"; "a protectorate has
frequently been a first step to annexation"