How to use "accretion" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "accretion" in popular movie and book plots

  • As the story progresses, it becomes clear that the Splinter orbits a collapsed star within its accretion disk and is subject to various dangers.  - Incandescence (novel)
  • They could take the human spirit, which is an accretion of feelings, wishes and dreams and turn that into a physical power or physical object.  - Munto

Example sentences for "accretion" in interesting articles

  • Islam? there have been many Islams, the final accretion quite different from the earlier ones.  - The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
  • However, it has been used in several different projects with vastly different goals, leading to a nontrivial accretion of cruft.  - Computing at scale, or, how Google has warped my brain
  • The idea that quasars are powered by the accretion of matter onto black holes was proposed within months after the discovery of quasars.  - Kip Thorne: The Man Who Imagined Wormholes and Schooled Hawking (2007)
  • In sum, instead of the body fighting to oppose ongoing fat gain, as is the case during the initial stages of caloric excess and weight gain, ongoing caloric excess and fat accretion are associated with physiological changes that enable the body to pack away excess calories with heightened efficiency.While the effects of chronic caloric excess to break the body’s natural defences against weight gain in animals are well established, the mechanisms are not yet clear.  - Call for an urgent rethink of the ‘health at every size’ concept
  • That would solve the file-drawer problem, since failed experiments would no longer be buried away, and if your results are later called into question, you couldn’t claim the raw data was lost in a hard-drive crash or inadvertently thrown away.<\ p="">

    This amounts to a whole new approach to experimental social science, emphasizing cooperation over competition and privileging the slow accretion of understanding over dramatic, counterintuitive results.  - The Reformation: Can Social Scientists Save Themselves?

Meaning of "accretion" in English

  • (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)
  • an increase by natural growth or addition
  • (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
  • (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
  • (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
  • something contributing to growth or increase
    Example
    - the central city surrounded by recent accretions

Meaning of "accretion" in Hindi

  • अभिवृद्धि ( Abhivriddhi, abhiwriddhi)
  • संचयन ( Sanchayan)
  • उपचय ( Upachay)

Synonyms of "accretion"

  • accumulation

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