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Definition of accretion noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

accretion

noun
/əˈkriʃn/ accretion pronunciation American
(technical or formal)
 
1 [countable] a layer of a substance that is slowly added to something2 [uncountable] the process of new layers being slowly added to somethingthe accretion of sand by wind action