| Definitions | accretion
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 .
- To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later - 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 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: - French: accrétion
- German: Zunahme
- Italian: accrescimento
- Spanish: aumento, crecimiento
Etymology: Latin accretio, from accrescere to increase. Compare crescent, increase, accrue
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