Accretion

What do we mean by accretion?

Growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion. noun

Something contributing to such growth or increase. noun

The growing together or adherence of parts that are normally separate. noun

Slow addition to land by deposition of water-borne sediment. noun

An increase of land along the shores of a body of water, as by alluvial deposit. noun

An increase in the mass of a celestial object by its gravitational capture of surrounding interstellar material. noun

In forestry, increase in diameter or height: distinguished from increment, increase in volume. noun

In petrol., a term proposed by Johnston-Lavis for a mass formed in solution by deposition about a nucleus, as in oölite, or upon the walls of a cavity. noun

The act of accreting or accrescing; a growing to; an increase by natural growth; an addition; specifically, an increase by an accession of parts externally. noun

In pathology, the growing together of parts normally separate, as the fingers or toes. noun

The thing added; an extraneous addition; an accession: commonly used in the plural, and restricted to accessions made slowly and gradually by some external force. noun

In law: The increase or growth of property by external accessions, as by alluvium naturally added to land situated on the bank of a river, or on the seashore. noun

In Scots law, the completion of an originally defective or imperfect right by some subsequent act on the part of the person from whom the right was derived. noun

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. noun

The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition. noun

Concretion; coherence of separate particles. noun

A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes. noun

The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition

Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.

Concretion; coherence of separate particles

A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.

The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.

The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

Gain to an heir or legatee; failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share percentage.

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

Words that are spelled similarly to accretion:
accretion, accretive, excretion, secretion, decretion, acception, accretions, incretion, accreting, cretion.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word accretion:
accreted, hailstone, terrane, craton, disk, eddington, subduction, uranus, pulsar, orogeny, dwarf, neutron, torus, dwarfs, planets, pebble, droplets, tectonic, sediment, nebula, luminosity, stellar, gravitational, astrophysics, relativistic, galaxies, disc, embryos, arcs, gaseous, planetary, luminous, galactic, angular, holes, helium, crust, viscosity, discs, binary, cores, interstellar, hole, nuclei, dust, emission, jupiter, momentum, infrared, jets, instability, mantle, differentiation, accumulation, erosion, orbital, collision, terrestrial, tidal, shoreline, flux, magnetic, magnitude, oceanic, masses, formation, companion, solar, onto, deposition, polar, heating, impacts, clouds, radioactive, expense, gas, grains, massive, matter, asteroid, galaxy, mass, radiation, compact, orbit, star, spinning, giant, periodic, material, radius, spin, rotating, friction, saturn, hydrogen, planet, outer, dynamics.

Words that rhyme with accretion:
completion, cretian, depletion, excretion, secretion, deletion, grecian, venetian, phoenician, rhetian, rhaetian, carburetion, diecian, mucous secretion, salt depletion, internal secretion, pass completion, felicia in, leash in, li shin, li shun, lucretia in, macleish in, pastiche in, phoenicia in, quiche in, tieszen, unleash in.

Adjectives that are often used to describe accretion:
gradual, slow, vertical, steady, lateral, rapid, later, net, mere, further, natural, planetary, continental, annual, crustal, fat, spherical, constant, simple, mass, late, continuous, historical, vast, subsequent, coastal, progressive, recent, continual, enormous, significant, external, considerable, legendary, cultural, gravitational, substantial, urban, secondary, tectonic, sudden, continued, magmatic, heterogeneous, cumulative, cold, accidental, initial, successive, homogeneous, active, fetal, daily, subduction, planetesimal, skeletal, symmetric, runaway, frontal, terrestrial, slight, magnetospheric, lean, organic, territorial, immense, marginal, thick, oceanic, quantitative, term, artificial, corresponding, random, incremental, permanent, nitrogen.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective accretion:
gley, deletion.

Words that sound like accretion:
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