We found 65 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word accretion:
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 General (27 matching dictionaries)
- accretion: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- accretion: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- accretion: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Accretion: Wiktionary [home, info]
- accretion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- accretion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- accretion: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- accretion: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- Accretion (astronomy), Accretion (astrophysics), Accretion (atmosphere), Accretion (atmospheric science), Accretion (finance), Accretion (geology), Accretion (science), Accretion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Accretion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- accretion: Rhymezone [home, info]
- accretion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
- Accretion: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
- accretion: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
- accretion: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
- accretion: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- accretion: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- accretion: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
Business (20 matching dictionaries)
- Accretion (of a discount), Accretion: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
- accretion: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
- Accretion: Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: INVESTORWORDS [home, info]
- ACCRETION: Accounting Glossary [home, info]
- Accretion: AMEX Dictionary of Financial Risk Management [home, info]
- Accretion (of a discount): bizterms.net [home, info]
- Accretion: Bloomberg Financial Glossary [home, info]
- Accretion: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
- ACCRETION: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
- Accretion: Investopedia [home, info]
- Accretion: International Law Dictionary [home, info]
- Accretion: Securities Terminology [home, info]
- Accretion: Taxopedia [home, info]
- Accretion (atmospheric science), Accretion (science), accretion: Legal dictionary [home, info]
- Accretion (atmospheric science), Accretion (science), accretion: Financial dictionary [home, info]
- Accretion: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]
- Accretion: WashingtonPost.com: Business [home, info]
Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
- accretion: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
- accretion: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- Accretion (atmospheric science), Accretion (science), accretion: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
- ACCRETION: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words [home, info]
Science (7 matching dictionaries)
- Accretion: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
- Accretion: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
- accretion: Imagine the Universe! Dictionary [home, info]
- Accretion: Extragalactic Astronomy [home, info]
- accretion: Nine Planets Glossary [home, info]
- Accretion: Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality [home, info]
Sports (1 matching dictionary)
- Accretion: BEACH-NET! (fishing) [home, info]
Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
- accretion: High-Energy Astrophysics [home, info]
- accretion: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
- ACCRETION: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
- Accretion: National Weather Service Glossary [home, info]
- accretion: Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary [home, info]
- accretion: Glossary of Water Resource Terms [home, info]
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Quick definitions (accretion)
▸ noun: (law) an 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)
▸ noun: an increase by natural growth or addition
▸ noun: (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or water-borne sediment
▸ noun: (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
▸ noun: (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
▸ noun: something contributing to growth or increase ("He scraped away the accretions of paint")
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