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Accretion vs Adjunct - What's the difference?

accretion | adjunct |

As nouns the difference between accretion and adjunct

is that accretion is accretion while adjunct is an appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

As an adjective adjunct is

connected in a subordinate function.

accretion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
  • * 1900 , , Chapter I,
    • There might have been a slight accretion of the moss and lichen on the shingled roof.
  • The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
    • A mineral ... augments not by growth, but by accretion .
  • * 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.

    • Synonyms

    * growth

    Antonyms

    * attrition

    Derived terms

    * co-accretion

    Related terms

    * accretion disk * accrete

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    adjunct

    English

    (wikipedia adjunct)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Learning is but an adjunct to our self.
  • A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
    • (Wotton)
  • (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".
  • (rhetoric) Symploce.
  • (dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
  • (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
  • (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
  • *
    • We can see from (34) that Determiners are sisters of N-bar and daughters of
    N-double-bar; Adjuncts' are both sisters and daughters of N-bar; and Comple-
    ments are sisters of N and daughters of N-bar. This means that '''Adjuncts''' re-
    semble Complements in that both are daughters of N-bar; but they differ from
    Complements in that '''Adjuncts''' are sisters of N-bar, whereas Complements are
    sisters of N. Likewise, it means that '''Adjuncts''' resemble Determiners in that
    both are sisters of N-bar, but they differ from Determiners in that '     Adjuncts
    are daughters of N-bar, whereas Determiners are daughters of N-double-bar.

    Derived terms

    * adjuncthood * adjunctive

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Connected in a subordinate function.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Though that my death were adjunct to my act.
  • Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.