Definition of Accretions. Meaning of Accretions. Synonyms of Accretions

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Definition of Accretions

Accretion
Accretion Ac*cre"tion, n. [L. accretio, fr. accrescere to increase. Cf. Crescent, Increase, Accrue.] 1. The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. --Arbuthnot. 2. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. A mineral . . . augments not by grown, but by accretion. --Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. --Sir G. C. Lewis. 3. Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass. 4. A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes. --Dana. 5. (Law) (a) 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. (b) 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. --Wharton. Kent.

Meaning of Accretions from wikipedia

- Look up accretion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Accretion may refer to: Accretion (astrophysics), the formation of planets and other bodies by collection...
- An accretion disk is a structure (often a cir****stellar disk) formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a m****ive central body. The central...
- the cores of giant planets is dominated by the further accretions of pebbles. Pebble accretion is aided by the gas drag felt by objects as they accelerate...
- Accretion is defined as the gradual collection of something over time. In meteorology or atmospheric science it is the process of ac****ulation of frozen...
- astrophysics, the Bondi accretion (also called Bondi–Hoyle–Lyttleton accretion), named after Hermann Bondi, is spherical accretion onto a compact object...
- In geology, accretion is a process by which material is added to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone, frequently on the edge of existing continental...
- Accretion/dilution analysis is a type of M&A financial modelling performed in the pre-deal phase to evaluate the effect of the transaction on shareholder...
- term accretion refers to a positive change in value following a transaction; it is applied in several contexts. When trading in bonds, accretion is the...
- In astronomy, Pulsed accretion is the periodic modulation in accretion rate of young stellar objects in binary systems, producing a periodic pulse in...
- Pebble accretion is the ac****ulation of particles, ranging from centimeters up to meters in diameter, into planetesimals in a protoplanetary disk that...