Associations to the word «Accretion»

ACCRETION, noun. The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

ACCRETION, noun. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.

ACCRETION, noun. Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.

ACCRETION, noun. Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.

ACCRETION, noun. (biology) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.

ACCRETION, noun. (geology) The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.

ACCRETION, noun. (legal) 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.

ACCRETION, noun. (legal) 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.

ACCRETION DISC, noun. Alternative spelling of accretion disk

ACCRETION DISCS, noun. Plural of accretion disc

ACCRETION DISK, noun. (astronomy) A structure formed by matter falling into a gravitational source such as a galaxy, black hole, or protostar.

ACCRETION DISKS, noun. Plural of accretion disk

ACCRETION OF LITHOSPHERE, noun. The production of new oceanic lithosphere at an active spreading plate boundary by the rise and solidification of magma of basaltic composition.

ACCRETION SHOCK, noun. (astronomy) A spherical shock wave that arises when material spirals inward to a gravitational source such as a star or black hole.

ACCRETION, noun. An increase by natural growth or addition.

ACCRETION, noun. Something contributing to growth or increase; "he scraped away the accretions of paint"; "the central city surrounded by recent accretions".

ACCRETION, noun. (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases.

ACCRETION, noun. (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles.

ACCRETION, noun. (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment.

ACCRETION, noun. (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).