in Physics, the increase or growth of an organic body, by the accretion of new parts. See Nutrition, Plants, and Vegetables.

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Accretion, among Civilians, the property acquired Accreto in a vague or unoccupied thing, by its adhering to or following another already occupied: thus, if a legacy be left to two persons, one of whom dies before the testator, the legacy devolves to the survivor by right of accretion.