accretion

Etymology
Borrowed from, from +. First attested in the 1610s. Compare, , , and so on.

Noun

 * 1) The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
 * 2) The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition.
 * 3) Something added externally to promote the external growth of an item.
 * 4) Concretion; coherence of separate particles.
 * 5)  A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
 * 6)  The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
 * 7)  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.
 * 8)  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.
 * 9)  The formation of planets and other bodies by collection of material through gravity.
 * 10)  Built-up matter lying on top of, rather than embedded in, a surface.
 * 1) Something added externally to promote the external growth of an item.
 * 2) Concretion; coherence of separate particles.
 * 3)  A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
 * 4)  The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
 * 5)  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.
 * 6)  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.
 * 7)  The formation of planets and other bodies by collection of material through gravity.
 * 8)  Built-up matter lying on top of, rather than embedded in, a surface.
 * 1)  The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  The formation of planets and other bodies by collection of material through gravity.
 * 5)  Built-up matter lying on top of, rather than embedded in, a surface.
 * 1)  Built-up matter lying on top of, rather than embedded in, a surface.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:, nárůstek
 * Danish: tilføjelse
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: ספיחה
 * Ido: naturala akumulo
 * Interlingua: accrescimento, augmento
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:, , ,


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 * Bulgarian: ,
 * French:
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 * Polish: akrecja
 * Russian: ,