"accretion" Definition

Definitions for the word "accretion" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 growth or increase by accumulation, addition, or organic enlargement. 2 the resulting whole. 3 a matter so added. B adhesion of this to the core matter. [latin cresco cret- grow]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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