Synonyms:
accretion, accumulation
Meaning: an increase by natural growth or addition
Synonyms:
collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
Meaning: several things grouped together or considered as a whole
Synonyms:
accumulation, accrual, accruement
Meaning: the act of accumulating
Usage examples
He was very far from being miserly, though keenly intent upon accumulation.
The downfall and death of societies are due to the power of accumulation possessed by property.
They had set us to carrying a great accumulation of Maharan literature from one apartment to another, and there arranging it upon shelves.
He would care, not in fearful accumulation of credit against a day of reckoning, but in surrender to the brimming abundance of their store.
The waves thus formed absorb the effect of the mutual perturbations, and prevent an accumulation which would be dangerous to the persistence of the whole.
This property, like that of the Romans, was wholly individual, independent, exclusive, transferable, and consequently susceptible of accumulation and invasion.
The ice did not stand with an even thickness over the surface of the glaciated area, but at some points it moved down in great lobes, which marked the lines of greatest pressure as well as the greatest accumulation.
If we did not see the silky remnants of the two vestibules projecting and feel a certain resistance when separating the parts of the bundle, we might take the thing for a casual accumulation, the work of the rain and the wind.
Then a slice of our neighbours' land will be wanted by us for pasture and tillage, and they will want a slice of ours, if, like ourselves, they exceed the limit of necessity, and give themselves up to the unlimited accumulation of wealth?
It was now but an hour later than the time fixed on for the beginning of their walk; and, in spite of what she had heard of the prodigious accumulation of dirt in the course of that hour, she could not from her own observation help thinking that they might have gone with very little inconvenience.