Word Meanings - CONCRESCENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles. Sir W. Raleigh.

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• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• ADDITIONALLY
  By way of addition.
• INCREASE
  To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function , a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished. Syn. -- To enlarge;
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• ADDITIONAL
  Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
• GROWTHEAD
  A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser.
• COALESCENCE
  The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.
• GROWTH
  1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production;
• GROWTHFUL
  Having capacity of growth. J. Hamilton.
• INCREASER
  One who, or that, increases.
• ADDITIONARY
  Additional. Herbert.
• INCREASEFUL
  Full of increase; abundant in produce. "Increaseful crops." Shak.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• SURADDITION
  Something added or appended, as to a name. Shak.
• INGROWTH
  A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
• OUTGROWTH
  That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
• INCOALESCENCE
  The state of not coalescing.
• SUPERADDITION
  The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously. This superaddition is nothing but fat. Arbuthnot.
• UPGROWTH
  The process or result of growing up; progress; development. The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy. J. R. Green.
• OVERGROWTH
  Excessive growth.