ATTRITION Antonyms

• (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

• the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

• a multiplicative increase

• an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed

• the act of retaining something

• the power of retaining and recalling past experience

• the power of retaining liquid

• 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)