English-Thai Dictionary

accretion

N การ เพิ่ม  kan-perm

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ACCRETION

n.[Lat. accretio, increase; accres'co, to increase, literally, to grow to; ad and cresco; Eng. accrue; See Increase, Accrue, Grow. ] 1. A growing to; an increase by natural growth; applied to the increase of organic bodies by the accession of parts.
Plants have an accretion, but no alimentation.
2. In the civil law, the adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; as, when a legacy is left to two persons, and one of them dies before the testator, the legacy devolves to the survivor by right of accretion.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ACCRETION

Ac *cre "tion, n. Etym: [L. accretio, fr. accrescere to increase. Cf. Crescent, Increase, Accrue. ]

 

1. The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. Arbuthnot.

 

2. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. A mineral. .. augments not by grown, but by accretion. Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.

 

3. Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.

 

4. A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes. Dana.

 

5. (Law ) (a ) 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. (b ) 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. Wharton. Kent.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

accretion

ac cre tion |əˈkrēSHən əˈkriʃən | ▶noun the process of growth or increase, typically by the gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter: the accretion of sediments in coastal mangroves | figurative : the growing accretion of central government authority. • a thing formed or added by such growth or increase: about one-third of California was built up by accretions | the city has a historic core surrounded by recent accretions. • Astronomy the coming together and cohesion of matter under the influence of gravitation to form larger bodies. DERIVATIVES ac cre tive |əˈkrētiv |adjective ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin accretion-, from accrescere ‘become larger ’ (see accrete ).

 

accretionary prism

ac cre tion ar y prism |əˈkrēSHəˌnerē əˈkriʃənɛri ˌprɪzm |(also accretionary wedge ) ▶noun Geology a mass of sedimentary material scraped off a region of oceanic crust during subduction and piled up at the edge of the overriding plate.

 

accretion disk

ac cre tion disk ▶noun Astronomy a rotating disk of matter formed by accretion around a massive body (such as a black hole ) under the influence of gravitation.

 

Oxford Dictionary

accretion

ac ¦cre |tion |əˈkriːʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] growth or increase by the gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter: the accretion of sediments in coastal mangroves | figurative : the growing accretion of central government authority. • [ count noun ] a thing formed or added by gradual growth or increase: the city has a historic core surrounded by recent accretions. • Astronomy the coming together and cohesion of matter under the influence of gravitation to form larger bodies. DERIVATIVES accretive adjective ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin accretio (n- ), from accrescere ‘become larger ’ (see accrete ).

 

accretionary prism

accretionary prism (also accretionary wedge ) ▶noun Geology a mass of sedimentary material scraped off a region of oceanic crust during subduction and piled up at the edge of a continental crustal plate.

 

accretion disc

ac ¦cre |tion disc ▶noun Astronomy a rotating disc of matter formed by accretion around a massive body (such as a black hole ) under the influence of gravitation.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

accretion

accretion noun 1 the accretion of sediments: accumulation, formation, collecting, cumulation, buildup, accrual; growth, increase. 2 architectural accretions: addition, extension, appendage, add-on, supplement.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

accretion

accretion noun 1 the accretion of sediments in coastal mangroves: accumulation, collecting, gathering, amassing, cumulation, accrual, growth, formation, enlargement, increase, gain, augmentation, rise, mushrooming, snowballing; rare amassment. 2 the city has a historic core surrounded by recent accretions: addition, extension, growth, appendage, add-on, supplement.

 

French Dictionary

accrétion

accrétion n. f. nom féminin Agglomération. : Accrétion de particules.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

accretion

ac cre tion /əkríːʃ (ə )n /名詞 U (付着 成長による )増大, 拡大 ; C 付着 [堆積 ]したもの .