how to pronounce accretion

/əˈkɹiː.ʃən/

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accretion is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of accretion in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… by the famed accretion architect charis …”

meanings of accretion

noun:

A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.
The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition.
The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
Gain to an heir or legatee; failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share percentage.
Concretion; coherence of separate particles.

accretion frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word accretion occurs in english on average 1.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics accretion can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that accretion can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;