accretion
IPA: ʌkrˈiʃʌn
noun
- The act of increasing by natural growth; especially 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.
- Something added externally to promote the external growth of an item.
- Concretion; coherence of separate particles.
- (biology) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
- (geology) The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
- (law) 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 soil from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
- (law) 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.
- (astrophysics) The formation of planets and other bodies by collection of material through gravity.
- (conservation) Built-up matter lying on top of, rather than embedded in, a surface.
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Examples of "accretion" in Sentences
- Once again the problem is accretions.
- The accretion stops when the gas is exhausted.
- Quiescence and advection dominated accretion flow.
- The second form of accretion is landmass accretion.
- This is because the accretion was not instantaneous.
- The accretion of the gas stops, when it is exhausted.
- The accreted matter forms a disk called accretion disk.
- The foreshore is subject to cycles of erosion and accretion.
- What could be more extreme than the conditions of the swirling cloud of matter surrounding a black hole, known as the accretion disk?
- Maybe talk about what type of intermediate-term accretion you expect to get from both the Omnium and the Bank of Ireland securities deal.
- The Reserve's marshes and beaches are among the best-studied sites nationally with regard to long-term accretion and erosion (over thousands of years).
- The earth at first was a ball of red-hot, semimolten material formed by accretion, which is the violent accumulation of heavy debris left over from the exploding star.
- Analysts said even with the lack of immediate accretion to earnings per share as a potential negative, Williams can make a compelling case for long-term accretion from the deal.
- The scientists for the first time, observed the vertical launch of rotating winds from glowing disks of gas, known as accretion disks, surrounding supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies.
- And it seems that people are anticipating a turn in the commodity cycle, and private enterprises that don't have to worry at all about near-term accretion dilution or a mass in power plants on the idea that the forward price curve is about to turn in a positive direction.
- BGH unitholders would result in dilution of BPL's distributable cash flow per unit of approximately 6 percent to 7 percent in 2011, but expects long-term accretion due to the benefits of the merger, including the elimination of incentive distributions currently being paid to BGH.