ACCRUEMENT Synonyms

• an increase by natural growth or addition

• something contributing to growth or increase

• (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases

• (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles

• (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment

• (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)

• a component that is added to something to improve it

• the act of adding one thing to another

• a quantity that is added

• something added to what you already have

• a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area

• the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers

• the act of building up an accumulation

• the result of the process of accumulation

• highly favorable publicity and praise

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• a progression from simpler to more complex forms

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

• vegetation that has grown

• the gradual beginning or coming forth

• (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

• something grown or growing

• a quantity that is added

• a change resulting in an increase

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

• the amount by which something increases

• the act of increasing something

• become bigger or greater in amount

• make bigger or more

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

• the amount by which something increases

• the act of accumulating