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Accretion vs Increment - What's the difference?

accretion | increment | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between accretion and increment

is that accretion is the act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth while increment is the action of increasing or becoming greater.

As a verb increment is

to increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

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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    increment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of increasing or becoming greater.
  • * Woodward
    • the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies
  • * Coleridge
    • A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
  • (heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
  • The amount of increase.
  • (rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, think on these things."

    • Derived terms

    * incremence (rare) * incremental

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
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    • Usage notes

    * Used in many technical fields, especially in mathematics and computing.

    Antonyms

    * decrement