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accrete

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Word definitions for accrete in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
accrete \ac*crete"\, a. Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter. (Bot.) Grown together. --Gray.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Characterized by accretion; made up; as, '''accrete''' matter. 2 (context botany English) Grown together v 1 (context intransitive English) To grow together, combine; to fuse. 2 (context intransitive English) To adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually. ...

Usage examples of accrete.

Kathy thought of celebrity as a subtle fluid, a universal element, like the phlogiston of the ancients, something spread evenly at creation through all the universe, but prone now to accrete, under specific conditions, around certain individuals and their careers.

At the, er, target location, base elements plentiful everywhere accrete to the information and an identical body and, er, outfit, will appear.

He feels the fear begin to accrete, seamlessly, senselessly, with absolute conviction, around this carnival ghost, the Cadillac, this oil-burning relic in its spectral robe of smudged mosaic silver.

Around the fast-growing sun, grains of dust and ice had accreted into swarming planetesimals.

For seventy years, defectors, malcontents, pirates, and pacifists had accreted around the refuge of our alien Queen.

Asteroids were fragile things, accreted in the dark and the cold, unused to major strains.

And, for the next century, Tacitus and I and our new partners accreted, and accreted, and accreted.

In an atmosphere, every surface accreted a thin layer of water vapor and oxides that reduced drag.

Post-humanism schooled us to think in terms of fits and starts, of structures accreting along unspoken patterns, following the lines first suggested by the ancient Terran philosopher llya Prigogine.

For seventy years, defectors, malcontents, pirates, and pacifists had accreted around the refuge of our alien Queen.

Post-humanism schooled us to think in terms of fits and starts, of structures accreting along unspoken patterns, following the lines first suggested by the ancient Terran philosopher llya Prigogine.

Post-humanism schooled us to think in terms of fits and starts, of structures accreting along unspoken patterns, following the lines first suggested by the ancient Terran philosopher llya Prigogine.

So larger aggregates of cells that have accreted together will move more sluggishly than smaller ones.

If wrapped around one another for internal support, buckyballs can (at least theoretically) accrete like pearls.

Almost all of it's picayune and, over time, as it accretes, unpleasant.