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Answer for the clue "(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) ", 9 letters:
accretion
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. 2 The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an ...
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In astrophysics , accretion is the accumulation of particles into a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter, typically gaseous matter, in an accretion disk . Most astronomical objects , such as galaxies , stars , and planets , are formed ...
WordNet
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n. an increase by natural growth or addition [syn: accumulation ] something contributing to growth or increase; "he scraped away the accretions of paint"; "the central city surrounded by recent accretions" (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Coral growth and the accretion of sediments in coastal mangroves will compensate. ▪ Erosion or accretion of sand by wind action is evident throughout and soil genesis is truncated by erosion or fossilised by deposition. ▪ The ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin accretionem (nominative accretio ) "an increasing, a growing larger" (as of the waxing moon), noun of action from past participle stem of accrescere , from ad- "to" (see ad- ) + crescere "grow" (see crescent ).
Usage examples of accretion.
But those red points in the accretion disc are Xeelee emplacements, Sugar Lumps, probably used as flak batteries.
Pirius thought, studying his display, to get at the black hole his greenships were going to have to fly through a hail of Xeelee flak, as well as pushing through the hazardous zone of the accretion disc.
Today the main display was a diorama of the center of the Galaxy, with a brilliant pinpoint that must be Chandra itself, surrounded by an accretion disc and other astrophysical monstrosities.
One of those green gems broke from the cluster and was swooping down toward the accretion disc.
Her ship immediately looped out of formation and streaked down toward the accretion disc.
Drifting at the center of the accretion disc, he learned, he was rather a long way away from any possible pickup.
Into his mind flashed the coordinates and routes necessary to take a desperate band of pilots within reach of the great accretion disk at True Center.
Above the searing accretion disk, in hovering clouds, gossamer herds fed.
Among them glided steel-blue gammavores, feeders on the harder gamma-ray emission from the accretion disk.
It also prefers the savor of those who have allowed their receptor planes to tarnish with succulent trace elements, spewed up by the hot accretion disk below.
The accretion disk churned below, a great lurid pinwheel grinding to an audience of densely packed stars.
An enormous, luminous accretion disk spread out like a circle around it.
The essence of the Eater lies in the magnetic structures erected using the accretion disk as a foundation.
But somehow it flowed along the field lines and then into the accretion disk.
A spew of fire-red brilliance came suddenly from the very center of it, where lurked the accretion disk.