accretion

She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind--or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.

The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon.

cortege of pains and inconveniences, which grows by geometrical accretion. Athos had no longer his son to induce him to walk firmly, with head erect, as a good example; he had no longer, in those brilliant eyes of the young man, an ever-ardent focus at which to kindle anew the fire of his looks.

Hence it followeth that all things are truly to be rated as of worth in measure of their serviceableness to that end; and their possessors should take rank in agreement thereto, neither the lord of an unproducing manor, howsoever broad and ancient, nor he who bears an unremunerate dignity, nor yet the pauper favorite of a king, being esteemed of level excellency with him whose riches are of daily accretion; and hardly should they whose wealth is barren claim and rightly take more honor than the poor and unworthy."

The mass would be likely to remain nearly the same, assimilating constantly to itself its gradual accretions. There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

From the ears hung two-inch-long ear-rings, and at Sheldon's direction the Binu man rubbed away the accretions of smoke and dirt, and from under his fingers appeared the polished green of jade, the sheen of pearl, and the warm red of Oriental gold.

Few women had tried more earnestly to pierce the accretions in which body and soul are enwrapped.

These fresh accretions of capital were immediately invested in other ventures.

In any science other than psychology the datum is primarily a perception, in which only the sensational core is ultimately and theoretically a datum, though some such accretions as turn the sensation into a perception are practically unavoidable.

The models predict that an accretion disk is formed when there is enough amount of gas that is trapped by the gravitational pull of a black hole.

Loop Capital analyst Andrew Wolf keeps his Buy rating and $48 price target on Performance Food Group, but sees the earnings accretion guided by the company in relation to its Reinhart acquisition as "most likely conservative." Based on the comparative analysis of similar transactions, the analyst contends that the $50M in year-three cost synergies is likely to prove to be low.

This nebulous disk gives astronomers new insights into the workings of accretion: the siphoning of material onto the surface of a black hole.