accretion
suomi-englanti sanakirjaaccretion englannista suomeksi
kiinni kasvaminen, akkreetio
vesijättö
kertyminen
lisäkasvu
akresenssi
lisääntyminen, kasvu
Substantiivi
accretion englanniksi
(U) by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth. (defdate)
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(RQ:Chesnutt House Behind the Cedars) There might have been a slight accretion of the moss and lichen on the shingled roof.
(RQ:Wharton Age of Innocence)
(Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; an instance of this.
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(RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum) ''Plants'' doe nouriſh; ''Inanimate Bodies'' doe not: They haue an ''Accretion'', but no ''Alimentation''.
(RQ:Hobbes Decameron)
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(RQ:London Burning Daylight)
(RQ:Atlantic) Friedrich's review against Nabokov|(quote-gloss) Nabokov it also shows that it is far from neutral.
The process by which material is added to a geological feature; specifically, to a plate at a zone.
''Followed by (m)'': external addition of matter to a thing which causes it to grow, especially in amount or size.
(RQ:Steele Englishman)
The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; a thing formed in this manner.
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The formation of planets, stars, and other body|celestial bodies by the aggregating of matter drawn together by gravity; also, the growth of a celestial body through this process.
(RQ:Atlantic) "In many ways, pebble accretion is the most efficient way of adding mass to a body," says Lambrechts.
Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
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(quote-book))|An Inquiry into the Credibility of the Early Roman History(nb...)|location=London|publisher=William Parker|John William Parker and Son,(nb...)|volume=2|section=part I (From the Establishment of Consuls to the First Secession (509–494 (smallcaps))), § 17||75|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49119/page/n89/mode/1up|oclc=969041677|If therefore it is admitted that a large part of the narrative of of Halicarnassus|Dionysius (quote-gloss) is false, what good ground have we for believing the rest? Assuming however that we are to strip off all the subordinate parts of his narrative, as a later accretion, and to retain only a nucleus of the leading facts, do we find that these can be safely accepted, and that he is confirmed in them by the agreement of the other historians? So far is this from being the case, that the accounts transmitted to us differ widely in the material points of the transaction.
A substance which has up|built up on the surface of an object, rather than become embedded in it.
Increase in property by the addition of other property to it (for example, gain of land by (l) or (l), or entitlement to the products of the property such as interest on money); or by the property owner acquiring another person’s ownership rights; accession; an instance of this.
Increase of an inheritance to an heir or legatee due to the share of a co-heir or co-legatee being added to it, because the latter person is legally unable to inherit the share.