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Accretion

noun

An increase by natural growth or addition. Synonym: accumulation.

Something contributing to growth or increase. "The central city surrounded by recent accretions"

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

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

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

(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).

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"Accretion" Quotes from Famous Books

... parallels to Fisher's ghost, and very hard on psychical science it is that ghostly evidence should be deliberately burked through the prejudices of lawyers. Mr. Suttar, in his 'Australian Stories Retold' (Bathurst, 1887), remarks that the ghost is not a late mythical accretion in Fisher's story. 'I have the authority of a gentleman who was intimately connected with the gentleman who had the charge of the police when the murder was done, that Farley's story did suggest the search for the body in the creek.' But Mr. Suttar thinks ...

— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang

... an assumption, which we find even in such learned writers as Harnack and Hatch, that the Hellenic element in Christianity is an accretion which transformed the new religion from its original purity and half-paganized Europe again. They would like to prove that underneath Catholicism was a primitive Protestantism, which owed nothing to Greece. The truth is that the Church was half Greek from the first, though, as I ...

— The Legacy of Greece • Various

... teacher's method must be one of accretion," said Carl Roeder, when interviewed between lesson hours in his delightful studio in Carnegie Hall. "He gains ideas from many methods and sources, and these he assimilates and makes practical for his work. At the same time he must ...

— Piano Mastery - Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers • Harriette Brower

... the history of David according to the simple thread of the old narrative. The first accretion we notice is the legend of the encounter of the shepherd boy with Goliath (xvii. 1-xviii. 5), which is involved in contradiction both with what goes before and with what follows it. According to xvi. 14-23, David, when he first came in contact with Saul, was no raw ...

— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... poet of Book IX.—one of "the latest expansions,"— thoroughly understands the legal and constitutional situation, as between Agamemnon and Achilles. Or rather all the poets who collaborated in Book IX., which "had grown by a process of accretion," [Footnote: Leaf, Iliad, vol. i. p. ...

— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang

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