Accretion vs Accumulate - What's the difference?
accretion | accumulate |
The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
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The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
* To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion -
Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.
concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
(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.
(legal) 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.
(legal) 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.
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
* Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates , and men decay. -
(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
As a noun accretion
is accretion.As a verb accumulate is
to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.As an adjective accumulate is
(poetic|rare) collected; accumulated.accretion
English
Noun
(en noun)- There might have been a slight accretion of the moss and lichen on the shingled roof.
- A mineral ... augments not by growth, but by accretion .
Synonyms
* growthAntonyms
* attritionDerived terms
* co-accretionReferences
*Anagrams
*accumulate
English
Verb
(accumulat)- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.