Accretion vs Burgeon - What's the difference?
accretion | burgeon |
The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
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The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
* To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion -
Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.
concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
(biology) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
(geology) The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
(legal) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
(legal) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share percentage.
To grow or expand.
To swell to the point of bursting.
(archaic) Of plants, to bloom, bud.
As nouns the difference between accretion and burgeon
is that accretion is accretion while burgeon is (obsolete) bud, sprout, shoot.As a verb burgeon is
to grow or expand.accretion
English
Noun
(en noun)- There might have been a slight accretion of the moss and lichen on the shingled roof.
- A mineral ... augments not by growth, but by accretion .
Synonyms
* growthAntonyms
* attritionDerived terms
* co-accretionReferences
*Anagrams
*burgeon
English
Etymology
From (etyl) burjon, . Alternate etymology derives (etyl) (presumably from the down covering certain buds).Verb
(en verb)- Gradually, the town burgeoned into a thriving city.
