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▸ noun:  (uncountable, also figurative) 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.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) (Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
▸ noun:  (geology) The process by which material is added to a geological feature; specifically, to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, also figurative) Followed by of: external addition of matter to a thing which causes it to grow, especially in amount or size.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.
▸ noun:  (astrophysics) The formation of planets, stars, and other celestial bodies by the aggregating of matter drawn together by gravity; also, the growth of a celestial body through this process.
▸ noun:  (countable, chiefly figurative) Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
▸ noun:  A substance which has built up on the surface of an object, rather than become embedded in it.
▸ noun:  (property law, 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.
▸ noun:  (inheritance law, 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.






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