Accretion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ACCRETION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• accumulation; the addition of parts to form a whole
• a thing formed or added by gradual growth or increase
• the coming together and cohesion of matter under the influence of gravitation to form larger bodies
• growth or increase by the gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter
• 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.
• 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.
• an increase by natural growth or addition
• something contributing to growth or increase
• (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
• (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
• (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
• (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)
• gradual growth
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup; as increase by external addition or accumulation (as by adhesion of external parts or particles); the increase of land by the action of natural forces

Words related to ACCRETION

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Words that contain ACCRETION

accretions14 accretionary19

How to use ACCRETION in a sentence

• In my judgment, as he appears to be sufficiently comfortable under the mouldy accretion, he had better stumble on with it as long as he can.
• Morality is a social fund, an accretion through the painful ages.
• This accretion of female population added very much to the charms of frontier society.
• This seems an obvious accretion in the original Hamlet story, and probably owing not to Saxo, but to his authority.
• It increases rather by accretion than by internal growth, and its color depends upon the humors.
• There has been both accretion from without and evolution from within.
• The result is a worse scandal, an accretion of more low myths about a conception of the primal Being which was, relatively, lofty and pure.
• That there has been a majestic evolution quietly but rapidly going on in this mass, growing as it was both by natural development and by accretion, is plainly evident.
• The accretion of pagan superstition was greater than she had recollected.
• The people, too, though the cobbler only dimly saw that, were as much the deposit and accretion of all dead ages as was the coal that lay bedded in the fencing hills.
• The various faculties of human sense and human intellect are so many molecules forming, by their accretion, the animal and the human soul.
• With each accretion of daylight they could see farther, and far as they could see was icy surface.
• The latter is anterior to Buddhism and it is only in a special sense that it can be called an addition or accretion.
• The English reverence is not for statute law, but for the common law which is the slow accretion of ages.
• It grew smaller in mathematical measurements at the same time that it grew heavier by the accretion of matter.
• For all this received its accretion only yesterday and the day before, as one may say, from the food and the air which is inspired.
• What is termed batture in Louisiana is the land made by accretion or deposits of the Mississippi.

Similar words containing ACCRE without suffix tion

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