Definition:
- (n.) The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
- (n.) The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
- (n.) Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
- (n.) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes.
- (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.
- (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.
Compare accretion with other words:
accretion vs. frog
accretion vs. aggrandize
accede vs. accretion
accretion vs. balloon
accredit vs. accretion
accretion vs. content
accreditation vs. accretion
accretion vs. aggregation
accretion vs. accumulation
accretion vs. addition
accretion vs. oligarch
accretion vs. accrual
accretion vs. proliferation
accrescence vs. accretion
accretion vs. accretive
accrete vs. accretion
accretion vs. attrition
accretion vs. legatee
accretion vs. coheir
accretion vs. recession
accretion vs. watermark
accretion vs. adhering
accretion vs. coherence
accretion vs. sediment
accretion vs. extraneous
accretion vs. externally
accretion vs. accrue
accretion vs. increase
accretion vs. crescent
accretion vs. amortization
accretion vs. concretion
accretion vs. accruer
accretion vs. growth