accretion
Significado (Inglés)
- (also, figuratively, uncountable) Increase by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth.
- (uncountable) (Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable, uncountable) (Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
- (also, figuratively, uncountable) Followed by of: external addition of matter to a thing which causes it to grow, especially in amount or size.
- (uncountable) The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.
- (countable, uncountable) The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.
- (countable, figuratively) Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
- (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
- (uncountable) Increase in property by the addition of other property to it (for example, gain of land by alluvion (“the deposition of sediment by a river or sea”) or dereliction (“recession of water from the usual watermark”), 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; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) 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.
Conceptos
Opuesto a
nonaccretion, attrition, erosion
Sinónimos
accretion of discount
growing together
alluvial deposit
Traducciones
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/əˈkɹiːʃn̩/
Etimología (Inglés)
PIE word *h₂éd Learned borrowing from Latin accrētiō (“increase, increment”) + English -ion (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or processes, or their results). Accrētiō is derived from accrēscō (“to grow, increase”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or processes, or their results); and accrēscō is from ac- (a variant of ad-, prefix meaning ‘to’, or having an intensifying effect) + crēscō (“to grow; to increase”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to cause to grow; to grow; to nourish”)). Doublet of accrue, crescent, and increase.
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