Definition of accrete in English:

accrete

verb əˈkriːtəˈkrit

[no object]

1Grow by accumulation or coalescence.
（经积累或聚合而）生长；增大
ice that had accreted grotesquely into stalactites
奇形怪状地聚生成钟乳石状的冰。
Example sentencesExamples
- In the case of the Inquiry, and of law in general, there are a set of formal rules which have accreted and grown massive over time with precisely the aim of locking down literal meaning.
- When the arcs accreted to the continental margin, the Main Uralian Thrust and Deevo Thrust were active simultaneously, probably causing uplift of the arc material between them.
- Online, audiences or communities don't necessarily build so much as grow or accrete.
- Sure, great poets steal, but this poet accretes.
- Rift basins in the Red Sea area developed in terranes accreted in Pan-African time, and it is believed that some of these ancient sutures controlled later Red Sea rifting.
- It's fascinating to watch the comments accrete in layers as the weeks go by.
- Nonetheless both types of sclerites lack evidence for marginal accretion, and both clearly accreted ventrally.
- The kids are born relatively normal, but as they go through life bone accretes all over them such that they can no longer move.
- Relationships between countries slowly accrete over years and there is always more to be done to strengthen them further and to build bridges to new friendships.
- The commonly quoted ‘spreading rate’ is the rate at which a single plate accretes - for symmetrical spreading it is half the divergence rate.
- The slab of crust containing the deposit and its assemblage of vent fossils was then translated northeastwards on the Farallon Plate and accreted to its present location.
- The westerly dipping reflections show that the dune has migrated from east to west and is accreting on its western side.
- It's not even all that easy to navigate, because most of the material has just accreted over the past seven years.
- Up until about 1997, the north end of Hog Island was accreting at a rate of 5 m yr - 1 and had developed a series of different-aged dune lines lying parallel to the shoreline.
- Only the upper 4 km of this sequence is accreting at the current subduction zone.
- There may have been an additional body of work, but this was secondary to the text-representation of yourself that accreted, word by word, as a result of your participation.
- With Abba, we were dealing with emotions that had simmered and accreted for years.
- To sum up, your digital profile is a representation of aspects of your self that accretes over time.
- The land owner sought not only compensation for the land expropriated as comprised within his deed, but also for a parcel of land that had accreted to his land by the actions of the river.
- One process is accretion under water - ‘the idea that grains on the sea floor or in living water roll around and sometimes they accrete or grow by adding layers of material,’ explained McSween.
1. 1.1with object Form (a composite whole) by gradual accumulation.
  积聚为；积成
  the collection of art he had accreted was to be sold
  他经年积累的艺术收藏品将被出售。
  Example sentencesExamples
  An unassuming but apparently magical dry-erase board accretes a roster of chores throughout the week.
  Although the sedimentary rocks of the LeMay Group are generally regarded as having been accreted, this has only been demonstrated at a few localities.
  Continuing to retrace its earlier history, the zircon may then become incorporated into sediment and, once more, find itself deeply buried in even younger metamorphic rock, and accreting a second, younger overgrowth.
  The region is protected from the ocean largely by the Coastal Mountains, which are composed of mostly oceanic sedimentary rocks and volcanic islands that were accreted to the landscape over the last 50 million years.
  How is it possible that now, and in the next few months, his little brain accretes cells at the mind-blowing rate of 250 000 a minute?
  They were probably accreted late in the Cretaceous.
  Batman is a thought form dreamt up by Bob Kane, which has accreted beliefs and views over the decades to become the Batman we know today, independent of the original.
  As the monster travelled and mutated, it also accreted ever more complex layers of meaning.
  Like the house that Jack built, it had accreted new bits and pieces and additions over the years and lacked overall coherence.
  Even ‘busy’ surgeons may take a long time to accrete enough performance data to allow valid comparison with their peers, particularly in low volume specialties such as neurosurgery.
  We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accrete possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.
  Music does not accrete weight because it's dark in tone and subject.
  In the last ten years, it has accreted features and has become one of the most sophisticated calendar programs I've seen.
  As discrete centres of energy, individuals begin, from before birth, to become themselves; to accrete identities and personalities.
  From prose through haiku-like passages, prime lyric moments, epic adventures and noir scenes, to what seem to be autobiographical insights, the volume accretes a sense of absurd fullness of vision.
  But beaches constantly morph because of erosion and deposition, and this one has accreted several hundred feet of sand in the past five decades.
  But given the precedents that have accreted over the last several decades, precedents that the Court is unlikely to sweep away, it seems to me that the equal treatment view is on balance the best outcome we can get today.
  The vent site was then translated northeastward by the motion of the Farallon Plate and was subsequently accreted to its present location.
  Negotiating context shifts over time proves to be the most difficult, socially and even legally, to let resources accrete value.
  They are also surrounded by a reservoir of fuel which allows them to accrete material right up to the Eddington Limit.
2. 1.2Astronomy (with reference to matter or a body) come or bring together under the influence of gravitation.
  〔天文〕（物质）（被）吸积
  no object the gas will cool and then accrete to the galaxy's core
  气体将冷却，而后被吸积到星系中心。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This past year, however, another team found that in the less volatile outer reaches of the nebula, the disks might survive long enough to eventually accrete into planets.
  The other moons probably accreted within the nebula in which Saturn itself formed.
  When the giant Jupiter was formed 4.6 billion years ago, its enormous gravity cleared the region around it from most of the rocky debris that would normally accrete to form a planet.
  Some of this is fossil heat from the beginning four and a half billion years ago when the earth accreted from rock, dust and gas into a molten ball.
  Matter accretes into forms while the energy contained in those forms seeks to be released, either to build other structures or to dissipate into the heat of entropy.
  Theory predicts that these disks accrete onto the holes because of friction.
  This is because the star itself is formed from the disk at or near its center, and the gas and dust in the outer regions dissipate or accrete into planets.
  The lessons of these, and perhaps others remaining to be discovered, are: the Milky Way is a dynamic system, still forming, its disk still accreting; and some of the stars in the Solar neighborhood may have formed in another galaxy.
  Planet cores and terrestrial rocky planets would accrete from the planetesimals.
  ‘Matter accreting around a black hole heats up,’ he explains, ‘and this heating could be a sign that small black holes were widespread in the Universe at that time.’

Origin

Late 18th century: from Latin accret- 'grown', from the verb accrescere, from ad- 'to' + crescere 'grow'.

Rhymes

autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat

Definition of accrete in US English:

accrete

verbəˈkritəˈkrēt

[no object]

1Grow by accumulation or coalescence.
（经积累或聚合而）生长；增大
ice that had accreted grotesquely into stalactites
奇形怪状地聚生成钟乳石状的冰。
Example sentencesExamples
- The kids are born relatively normal, but as they go through life bone accretes all over them such that they can no longer move.
- Only the upper 4 km of this sequence is accreting at the current subduction zone.
- The slab of crust containing the deposit and its assemblage of vent fossils was then translated northeastwards on the Farallon Plate and accreted to its present location.
- With Abba, we were dealing with emotions that had simmered and accreted for years.
- Online, audiences or communities don't necessarily build so much as grow or accrete.
- Sure, great poets steal, but this poet accretes.
- Relationships between countries slowly accrete over years and there is always more to be done to strengthen them further and to build bridges to new friendships.
- It's fascinating to watch the comments accrete in layers as the weeks go by.
- When the arcs accreted to the continental margin, the Main Uralian Thrust and Deevo Thrust were active simultaneously, probably causing uplift of the arc material between them.
- One process is accretion under water - ‘the idea that grains on the sea floor or in living water roll around and sometimes they accrete or grow by adding layers of material,’ explained McSween.
- There may have been an additional body of work, but this was secondary to the text-representation of yourself that accreted, word by word, as a result of your participation.
- The land owner sought not only compensation for the land expropriated as comprised within his deed, but also for a parcel of land that had accreted to his land by the actions of the river.
- The commonly quoted ‘spreading rate’ is the rate at which a single plate accretes - for symmetrical spreading it is half the divergence rate.
- Nonetheless both types of sclerites lack evidence for marginal accretion, and both clearly accreted ventrally.
- Rift basins in the Red Sea area developed in terranes accreted in Pan-African time, and it is believed that some of these ancient sutures controlled later Red Sea rifting.
- The westerly dipping reflections show that the dune has migrated from east to west and is accreting on its western side.
- In the case of the Inquiry, and of law in general, there are a set of formal rules which have accreted and grown massive over time with precisely the aim of locking down literal meaning.
- Up until about 1997, the north end of Hog Island was accreting at a rate of 5 m yr - 1 and had developed a series of different-aged dune lines lying parallel to the shoreline.
- To sum up, your digital profile is a representation of aspects of your self that accretes over time.
- It's not even all that easy to navigate, because most of the material has just accreted over the past seven years.
1. 1.1with object Form (a composite whole or a collection of things) by gradual accumulation.
  积聚为；积成
  the collection of art he had accreted was to be sold
  他经年积累的艺术收藏品将被出售。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Music does not accrete weight because it's dark in tone and subject.
  Even ‘busy’ surgeons may take a long time to accrete enough performance data to allow valid comparison with their peers, particularly in low volume specialties such as neurosurgery.
  As the monster travelled and mutated, it also accreted ever more complex layers of meaning.
  As discrete centres of energy, individuals begin, from before birth, to become themselves; to accrete identities and personalities.
  But given the precedents that have accreted over the last several decades, precedents that the Court is unlikely to sweep away, it seems to me that the equal treatment view is on balance the best outcome we can get today.
  They were probably accreted late in the Cretaceous.
  Negotiating context shifts over time proves to be the most difficult, socially and even legally, to let resources accrete value.
  An unassuming but apparently magical dry-erase board accretes a roster of chores throughout the week.
  Like the house that Jack built, it had accreted new bits and pieces and additions over the years and lacked overall coherence.
  Continuing to retrace its earlier history, the zircon may then become incorporated into sediment and, once more, find itself deeply buried in even younger metamorphic rock, and accreting a second, younger overgrowth.
  Although the sedimentary rocks of the LeMay Group are generally regarded as having been accreted, this has only been demonstrated at a few localities.
  In the last ten years, it has accreted features and has become one of the most sophisticated calendar programs I've seen.
  The vent site was then translated northeastward by the motion of the Farallon Plate and was subsequently accreted to its present location.
  But beaches constantly morph because of erosion and deposition, and this one has accreted several hundred feet of sand in the past five decades.
  They are also surrounded by a reservoir of fuel which allows them to accrete material right up to the Eddington Limit.
  How is it possible that now, and in the next few months, his little brain accretes cells at the mind-blowing rate of 250 000 a minute?
  From prose through haiku-like passages, prime lyric moments, epic adventures and noir scenes, to what seem to be autobiographical insights, the volume accretes a sense of absurd fullness of vision.
  We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accrete possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.
  The region is protected from the ocean largely by the Coastal Mountains, which are composed of mostly oceanic sedimentary rocks and volcanic islands that were accreted to the landscape over the last 50 million years.
  Batman is a thought form dreamt up by Bob Kane, which has accreted beliefs and views over the decades to become the Batman we know today, independent of the original.
2. 1.2Astronomy (with reference to matter or a body) come or bring together under the influence of gravitation.
  〔天文〕（物质）（被）吸积
  the gas will cool and then accrete to the galaxy's core
  气体将冷却，而后被吸积到星系中心。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Theory predicts that these disks accrete onto the holes because of friction.
  This past year, however, another team found that in the less volatile outer reaches of the nebula, the disks might survive long enough to eventually accrete into planets.
  When the giant Jupiter was formed 4.6 billion years ago, its enormous gravity cleared the region around it from most of the rocky debris that would normally accrete to form a planet.
  Some of this is fossil heat from the beginning four and a half billion years ago when the earth accreted from rock, dust and gas into a molten ball.
  The lessons of these, and perhaps others remaining to be discovered, are: the Milky Way is a dynamic system, still forming, its disk still accreting; and some of the stars in the Solar neighborhood may have formed in another galaxy.
  This is because the star itself is formed from the disk at or near its center, and the gas and dust in the outer regions dissipate or accrete into planets.
  ‘Matter accreting around a black hole heats up,’ he explains, ‘and this heating could be a sign that small black holes were widespread in the Universe at that time.’
  Matter accretes into forms while the energy contained in those forms seeks to be released, either to build other structures or to dissipate into the heat of entropy.
  The other moons probably accreted within the nebula in which Saturn itself formed.
  Planet cores and terrestrial rocky planets would accrete from the planetesimals.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Latin accret- ‘grown’, from the verb accrescere, from ad- ‘to’ + crescere ‘grow’.

单词	accrete
释义	Definition of accrete in English: accrete verb əˈkriːtəˈkrit [no object] 1Grow by accumulation or coalescence. （经积累或聚合而）生长；增大 ice that had accreted grotesquely into stalactites 奇形怪状地聚生成钟乳石状的冰。 Example sentencesExamples In the case of the Inquiry, and of law in general, there are a set of formal rules which have accreted and grown massive over time with precisely the aim of locking down literal meaning. When the arcs accreted to the continental margin, the Main Uralian Thrust and Deevo Thrust were active simultaneously, probably causing uplift of the arc material between them. Online, audiences or communities don't necessarily build so much as grow or accrete. Sure, great poets steal, but this poet accretes. Rift basins in the Red Sea area developed in terranes accreted in Pan-African time, and it is believed that some of these ancient sutures controlled later Red Sea rifting. It's fascinating to watch the comments accrete in layers as the weeks go by. Nonetheless both types of sclerites lack evidence for marginal accretion, and both clearly accreted ventrally. The kids are born relatively normal, but as they go through life bone accretes all over them such that they can no longer move. Relationships between countries slowly accrete over years and there is always more to be done to strengthen them further and to build bridges to new friendships. The commonly quoted ‘spreading rate’ is the rate at which a single plate accretes - for symmetrical spreading it is half the divergence rate. The slab of crust containing the deposit and its assemblage of vent fossils was then translated northeastwards on the Farallon Plate and accreted to its present location. The westerly dipping reflections show that the dune has migrated from east to west and is accreting on its western side. It's not even all that easy to navigate, because most of the material has just accreted over the past seven years. Up until about 1997, the north end of Hog Island was accreting at a rate of 5 m yr - 1 and had developed a series of different-aged dune lines lying parallel to the shoreline. Only the upper 4 km of this sequence is accreting at the current subduction zone. There may have been an additional body of work, but this was secondary to the text-representation of yourself that accreted, word by word, as a result of your participation. With Abba, we were dealing with emotions that had simmered and accreted for years. To sum up, your digital profile is a representation of aspects of your self that accretes over time. The land owner sought not only compensation for the land expropriated as comprised within his deed, but also for a parcel of land that had accreted to his land by the actions of the river. One process is accretion under water - ‘the idea that grains on the sea floor or in living water roll around and sometimes they accrete or grow by adding layers of material,’ explained McSween. 1.1with object Form (a composite whole) by gradual accumulation. 积聚为；积成 the collection of art he had accreted was to be sold 他经年积累的艺术收藏品将被出售。 Example sentencesExamples An unassuming but apparently magical dry-erase board accretes a roster of chores throughout the week. Although the sedimentary rocks of the LeMay Group are generally regarded as having been accreted, this has only been demonstrated at a few localities. Continuing to retrace its earlier history, the zircon may then become incorporated into sediment and, once more, find itself deeply buried in even younger metamorphic rock, and accreting a second, younger overgrowth. The region is protected from the ocean largely by the Coastal Mountains, which are composed of mostly oceanic sedimentary rocks and volcanic islands that were accreted to the landscape over the last 50 million years. How is it possible that now, and in the next few months, his little brain accretes cells at the mind-blowing rate of 250 000 a minute? They were probably accreted late in the Cretaceous. Batman is a thought form dreamt up by Bob Kane, which has accreted beliefs and views over the decades to become the Batman we know today, independent of the original. As the monster travelled and mutated, it also accreted ever more complex layers of meaning. Like the house that Jack built, it had accreted new bits and pieces and additions over the years and lacked overall coherence. Even ‘busy’ surgeons may take a long time to accrete enough performance data to allow valid comparison with their peers, particularly in low volume specialties such as neurosurgery. We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accrete possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty. Music does not accrete weight because it's dark in tone and subject. In the last ten years, it has accreted features and has become one of the most sophisticated calendar programs I've seen. As discrete centres of energy, individuals begin, from before birth, to become themselves; to accrete identities and personalities. From prose through haiku-like passages, prime lyric moments, epic adventures and noir scenes, to what seem to be autobiographical insights, the volume accretes a sense of absurd fullness of vision. But beaches constantly morph because of erosion and deposition, and this one has accreted several hundred feet of sand in the past five decades. But given the precedents that have accreted over the last several decades, precedents that the Court is unlikely to sweep away, it seems to me that the equal treatment view is on balance the best outcome we can get today. The vent site was then translated northeastward by the motion of the Farallon Plate and was subsequently accreted to its present location. Negotiating context shifts over time proves to be the most difficult, socially and even legally, to let resources accrete value. They are also surrounded by a reservoir of fuel which allows them to accrete material right up to the Eddington Limit. 1.2Astronomy (with reference to matter or a body) come or bring together under the influence of gravitation. 〔天文〕（物质）（被）吸积 no object the gas will cool and then accrete to the galaxy's core 气体将冷却，而后被吸积到星系中心。 Example sentencesExamples This past year, however, another team found that in the less volatile outer reaches of the nebula, the disks might survive long enough to eventually accrete into planets. The other moons probably accreted within the nebula in which Saturn itself formed. When the giant Jupiter was formed 4.6 billion years ago, its enormous gravity cleared the region around it from most of the rocky debris that would normally accrete to form a planet. Some of this is fossil heat from the beginning four and a half billion years ago when the earth accreted from rock, dust and gas into a molten ball. Matter accretes into forms while the energy contained in those forms seeks to be released, either to build other structures or to dissipate into the heat of entropy. Theory predicts that these disks accrete onto the holes because of friction. This is because the star itself is formed from the disk at or near its center, and the gas and dust in the outer regions dissipate or accrete into planets. The lessons of these, and perhaps others remaining to be discovered, are: the Milky Way is a dynamic system, still forming, its disk still accreting; and some of the stars in the Solar neighborhood may have formed in another galaxy. Planet cores and terrestrial rocky planets would accrete from the planetesimals. ‘Matter accreting around a black hole heats up,’ he explains, ‘and this heating could be a sign that small black holes were widespread in the Universe at that time.’ Origin Late 18th century: from Latin accret- 'grown', from the verb accrescere, from ad- 'to' + crescere 'grow'. Rhymes autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat Definition of accrete in US English: accrete verbəˈkritəˈkrēt [no object] 1Grow by accumulation or coalescence. （经积累或聚合而）生长；增大 ice that had accreted grotesquely into stalactites 奇形怪状地聚生成钟乳石状的冰。 Example sentencesExamples The kids are born relatively normal, but as they go through life bone accretes all over them such that they can no longer move. Only the upper 4 km of this sequence is accreting at the current subduction zone. The slab of crust containing the deposit and its assemblage of vent fossils was then translated northeastwards on the Farallon Plate and accreted to its present location. With Abba, we were dealing with emotions that had simmered and accreted for years. Online, audiences or communities don't necessarily build so much as grow or accrete. Sure, great poets steal, but this poet accretes. Relationships between countries slowly accrete over years and there is always more to be done to strengthen them further and to build bridges to new friendships. It's fascinating to watch the comments accrete in layers as the weeks go by. When the arcs accreted to the continental margin, the Main Uralian Thrust and Deevo Thrust were active simultaneously, probably causing uplift of the arc material between them. One process is accretion under water - ‘the idea that grains on the sea floor or in living water roll around and sometimes they accrete or grow by adding layers of material,’ explained McSween. There may have been an additional body of work, but this was secondary to the text-representation of yourself that accreted, word by word, as a result of your participation. The land owner sought not only compensation for the land expropriated as comprised within his deed, but also for a parcel of land that had accreted to his land by the actions of the river. The commonly quoted ‘spreading rate’ is the rate at which a single plate accretes - for symmetrical spreading it is half the divergence rate. Nonetheless both types of sclerites lack evidence for marginal accretion, and both clearly accreted ventrally. Rift basins in the Red Sea area developed in terranes accreted in Pan-African time, and it is believed that some of these ancient sutures controlled later Red Sea rifting. The westerly dipping reflections show that the dune has migrated from east to west and is accreting on its western side. In the case of the Inquiry, and of law in general, there are a set of formal rules which have accreted and grown massive over time with precisely the aim of locking down literal meaning. Up until about 1997, the north end of Hog Island was accreting at a rate of 5 m yr - 1 and had developed a series of different-aged dune lines lying parallel to the shoreline. To sum up, your digital profile is a representation of aspects of your self that accretes over time. It's not even all that easy to navigate, because most of the material has just accreted over the past seven years. 1.1with object Form (a composite whole or a collection of things) by gradual accumulation. 积聚为；积成 the collection of art he had accreted was to be sold 他经年积累的艺术收藏品将被出售。 Example sentencesExamples Music does not accrete weight because it's dark in tone and subject. Even ‘busy’ surgeons may take a long time to accrete enough performance data to allow valid comparison with their peers, particularly in low volume specialties such as neurosurgery. As the monster travelled and mutated, it also accreted ever more complex layers of meaning. As discrete centres of energy, individuals begin, from before birth, to become themselves; to accrete identities and personalities. But given the precedents that have accreted over the last several decades, precedents that the Court is unlikely to sweep away, it seems to me that the equal treatment view is on balance the best outcome we can get today. They were probably accreted late in the Cretaceous. Negotiating context shifts over time proves to be the most difficult, socially and even legally, to let resources accrete value. An unassuming but apparently magical dry-erase board accretes a roster of chores throughout the week. Like the house that Jack built, it had accreted new bits and pieces and additions over the years and lacked overall coherence. Continuing to retrace its earlier history, the zircon may then become incorporated into sediment and, once more, find itself deeply buried in even younger metamorphic rock, and accreting a second, younger overgrowth. Although the sedimentary rocks of the LeMay Group are generally regarded as having been accreted, this has only been demonstrated at a few localities. In the last ten years, it has accreted features and has become one of the most sophisticated calendar programs I've seen. The vent site was then translated northeastward by the motion of the Farallon Plate and was subsequently accreted to its present location. But beaches constantly morph because of erosion and deposition, and this one has accreted several hundred feet of sand in the past five decades. They are also surrounded by a reservoir of fuel which allows them to accrete material right up to the Eddington Limit. How is it possible that now, and in the next few months, his little brain accretes cells at the mind-blowing rate of 250 000 a minute? From prose through haiku-like passages, prime lyric moments, epic adventures and noir scenes, to what seem to be autobiographical insights, the volume accretes a sense of absurd fullness of vision. We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accrete possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty. The region is protected from the ocean largely by the Coastal Mountains, which are composed of mostly oceanic sedimentary rocks and volcanic islands that were accreted to the landscape over the last 50 million years. Batman is a thought form dreamt up by Bob Kane, which has accreted beliefs and views over the decades to become the Batman we know today, independent of the original. 1.2Astronomy (with reference to matter or a body) come or bring together under the influence of gravitation. 〔天文〕（物质）（被）吸积 the gas will cool and then accrete to the galaxy's core 气体将冷却，而后被吸积到星系中心。 Example sentencesExamples Theory predicts that these disks accrete onto the holes because of friction. This past year, however, another team found that in the less volatile outer reaches of the nebula, the disks might survive long enough to eventually accrete into planets. When the giant Jupiter was formed 4.6 billion years ago, its enormous gravity cleared the region around it from most of the rocky debris that would normally accrete to form a planet. Some of this is fossil heat from the beginning four and a half billion years ago when the earth accreted from rock, dust and gas into a molten ball. The lessons of these, and perhaps others remaining to be discovered, are: the Milky Way is a dynamic system, still forming, its disk still accreting; and some of the stars in the Solar neighborhood may have formed in another galaxy. This is because the star itself is formed from the disk at or near its center, and the gas and dust in the outer regions dissipate or accrete into planets. ‘Matter accreting around a black hole heats up,’ he explains, ‘and this heating could be a sign that small black holes were widespread in the Universe at that time.’ Matter accretes into forms while the energy contained in those forms seeks to be released, either to build other structures or to dissipate into the heat of entropy. The other moons probably accreted within the nebula in which Saturn itself formed. Planet cores and terrestrial rocky planets would accrete from the planetesimals. Origin Late 18th century: from Latin accret- ‘grown’, from the verb accrescere, from ad- ‘to’ + crescere ‘grow’.
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