Accretion

==English==
===Etymology===
Latin accretio, from . Compare crescent, increase, accrue
===Pronunciation===
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===Noun===
# 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.
#:* A mineral ... augments not by grown, but by accretion.
#:* To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion - George Cornewall Lewis
# 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 or 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.
====Synonyms====
* growth
====Antonyms====
* attrition
====Translations====
* Bulgarian: , 
* Danish: tilføjelse 
* French: 
* German: 
* Ido: naturala akumulo
* Interlingua: accrescimento, augmento
* Italian: 
* Spanish: , 
* Bulgarian:, 
====Related terms====
* accretion disk
* accrete
====References====
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