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English

Etymology

Latin accretio, from accrescere to increase. Compare crescent, increase, accrue

Pronunciation

IPA: WEAE /ʌˈkɹi.ʃən/

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-iːʃən|-iːʃən

Noun

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. 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; as, an accretion of earth.
: Quotations
:* A mineral ... augments not by grown, but by accretion.
:* To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion - w:George Cornewall Lewis|George Cornewall Lewis
concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
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.

Translations

act of increasing by natural growth

Danish: tilføjelse
French: accrétion
German: Zunahme
Ido: naturala akumulo
Interlingua: accrescimento, augmento
Italian: accrescimento
Spanish: aumento, crecimiento

Related terms

accretion disk

References

Webster 1913

ar:accretion fa:accretion fr:accretion io:accretion id:accretion it:accretion pt:accretion fi:accretion ta:accretion te:accretion vi:accretion tr:accretion zh:accretion

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English accretion \ac*cre"tion\ ([a^]k*kr[=e]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. accretio,
fr. accrescere to increase. Cf. Crescent, Increase,
Accrue.]
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1. The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase
of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts;
organic growth. --Arbuthnot.
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2. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an
accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as,
an accretion of earth.
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A mineral . . . augments not by growth, but by
accretion. --Owen.
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To strip off all the subordinate parts of his
narrative as a later accretion. --Sir G. C.
Lewis.
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3. Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the
accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
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4. A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the
fingers or toes. --Dana.
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5. (Law)
(a) 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 soil from the sea or a river, or by a gradual
recession of the water from the usual watermark.
(b) Gain to an heir or legatee, by failure of a coheir to
the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same
thing, to take his share. --Wharton. Kent.
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WordNet accretion
n 1: an increase by natural growth or addition [syn: accumulation]
2: something contributing to growth or increase; "he scraped
away the accretions of paint"; "the central city
surrounded by recent accretions"
3: (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the
effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and
gases
4: (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or
particles
5: (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial
deposits or water-borne sediment
6: (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as
when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition
or rejects the inheritance)

ACCRETION. The increase of land by the washing of the seas or rivers. Hale, De Jure Maris, 14. Vide Alluvion; Avulsion.