Accreting

Word ACCRETING
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Definitions and meanings of "Accreting"

What do we mean by accreting?

To grow together, combine; to fuse.

To adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually.

To make adhere; to add; to make larger or more, as by growing.

Grow by accumulation Urban Dictionary

The hypothesis that sound co-located-with-itself creates light. Ie. Sound moving at uncountable speed. Urban Dictionary

A very obese person; a cheese hog. A respectful term, as some people believe that the more matter you can make part of yourself, the better off you are. Originated on "Buffalo This" (buffalothis.blogspot.com) in the "Respect for the cheese hogs" article. Urban Dictionary

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The word "accreting" in example sentences

We're kind of small but we're not what you'd call accreting ❋ Hart, Melton (1974)

But if another star is near enough, the white dwarf may start taking on mass ( "accreting") from its neighbor until it reaches a critical limit, known as the Chandrasekhar mass. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The lesson that Comic-Con may have learned from Woldcon is that starting with a common interest and accreting all sorts of marginally-related additional interest groups opens up amazing growth opportunities at the expense of a coherent audience focus and a requirement for massive efforts at crowd control and a consciousness of the practical limits of growth associated with physical facilities. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since the 1aSN which are caused from two white dwarfs colliding are more common and more variable than their accreting cousins. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is also easier to determine the mass of a white dwarf accreting energy from a known type of star, than it is to figure out the mass and total energy two colliding white dwarfs will release…. if you even happen to see them before they collide, which isn't likely. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The research team have also suggested that all massive stars may begin their life with a sizeable dusty disk of accreting material. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He imagined a little micro whispering to the wreck of a man named Corto, the words flowing like a river, the flat personality-substitute called Armitage accreting slowly in some darkened ward .... ❋ Boudreau Freret (2010)

            Kicking open the door to the house, Larry's emotionally scarred father exhibits uncharacteristic energy and cheer — something unseen in the maelstrom of depression and accreting money troubles that has swallowed almost every particle of either over the two year process of his divorce. ❋ Bennett Elliott (2010)

Two new studies have measured for the first time the dust emission at very long infrared wavelengths, and found a set of young stars that are accreting material and flaring. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Recurrent novae are close binary stars where matter is accreting from the secondary star onto the surface of a white dwarf primary. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A Type Ia supernova caused by accreting material produces significant X-ray emission prior to the explosion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Accretionary lapilli are formed in an eruption column or cloud by moisture or electrostatic forces, with the volcanic ash nucleating on some object and then accreting to it in layers before the accretionary lapillus falls from the cloud. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Supermassive black holes can only be detected as quasars – which are one kind of highly luminous active galactic nucleus AGN – when they are actively accreting matter, a process that releases vast amounts of energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We talked a lot about what we start with, that sort of thing, and we talked about accreting enough from various sources to have an idea of where things are going. ❋ Elisem (2008)

In other words the sort of adiabatic approximation used for an accreting WD is possibly more or less valid. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's really interesting to follow this debris trail that's gradually merging with the Magellanic Stream and eventually accreting onto the inner halo of the Milky Way Galaxy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The paper actually did choose 14 gas-poor elliptical galaxies looking in the 0.3 to 0.7 keV band to "…optimized to detect soft emission from thermonuclear-burning on the surface of an accreting white dwarf." ❋ Unknown (2010)

[The ice] [grew] accretely ❋ Ridonkulous (2017)

Sound is the only emergent phenomenon that can be [superimposed] on the same location twice. Ie. Two similar-sounding words occupy the same space. [Accretive-induction] states that light is the result of [sound's] ability to co-locate itself in the same space. ❋ Sandrashine (2020)

*Ding dong!* Tim: "Hey there [old buddy], it's been a long time!" Bill: "Sure has. We used to rule this town back in the day. It's good to be back." [Tim's mom]: "Is that little Billy? Tell him I say hi. I'd come in there if I could fit through that darned doorway!" *earth [rumbles]* Bill: "Dude, is that your mom making the floor shake like that? Let me take a look..." (runs into other room) Bill: "DAAAAAMN dude she is a chee-ee-eese hog! That woman got huge!" Tim: "Not cool, man." Bill: "No, I mean it in a good way. She's an extremely adept matter accreter - I bet she has 500 lbs to her name!" Tim: "Oh, well then thanks. You should tell her that yourself! I bet she'd be thrilled." ❋ Nicholas D (2008)

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