accremental
/ˌækrɪˈmɛn.tl̩/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Related to growth or increase by successive additions, particularly in size or volume, often through the gradual deposition of material. This term is used to describe processes or structures that grow by accretion, such as the formation of shells, tree rings, or the buildup of biological tissues.
Example Sentences
- "There are moderately developed accremental striæ, which become ruder and rounder on the free tube."
- "The factor mainly responsible for the crisis (an interruption in the gradual, accremental change when the extant institutions absorb new conditions, modifying in the process in a fashion not suddent enough to be perceived as revolutionary) in Western Europe which was to lead eventually to the articulation of class society was the demographic explosion of the eighteenth century."
- "They are crossed by oblique crowded accremental striae, producing sublenticular pitting."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: accrēmentum
Inflected Forms
more accremental (comparative)
most accremental (superlative)