English Dictionary

accrete

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈkɹiːt/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞

(intransitive) To grow together, combine; to fuse. / (intransitive) To adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually. / (transitive) To make adhere; to add; to make larger or more, as by growing.

日本語の意味

（自動詞）付着しながら、または融合して徐々に成長する。 / （他動詞）物を付着させ、融合させる。 / 徐々に増加・拡大する、または成長する。

Sediment layers accrete slowly on the riverbed.

堆積層は河床で徐々に結合していく。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To grow together, combine; to fuse.

Astronomers believe the Earth began to accrete more than 4.6 billion years ago.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually.

意味（3）

(transitive) To make adhere; to add; to make larger or more, as by growing.

the reader has not only mastered this distinction , but that he has so thoroughly accreted it and assimilated it to his habits of mind

accretes （ present singular third-person ）

accreting （ participle present ）

accreted （ participle past ）

accreted （ past ）