| ADJECTIVE | all | accretionary | marked or produced by accretion |
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| Meaning | marked or produced by accretion. | |
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| Broader | increasing | Becoming greater or larger |
| Nouns | accretion | (law) an increase / increase / 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) |
| accretion | an increase / increase by natural growth or addition | |
| accretion | (geology) an increase / increase / increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment | |
| accretion | (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles | |
| accretion | (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases | |
| accretion | something contributing to growth or increase / increase / increase / increase | |
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