accretion

accretion has 12 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. (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)
• n.. an increase by natural growth or addition
• n.. (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
• n.. (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
• n.. (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
• n.. something contributing to growth or increase; "he scraped away the accretions of paint"; "the central city surrounded by recent accretions"