accretion
Example Sentences
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Active galactic nuclei occur when material spirals into a galaxy's central black hole, forming an extremely hot accretion disk.
From Science Daily
When ALT5’s stock trades below the value of its underlying tokens, Witkoff said it could also buy back shares “as a complementary lever to drive accretion.”
From Barron's
The novels will therefore be free from what Jenkins calls “the accretions of decay”—their characters meet “not in time, but space.”
Two new studies -- published in National Science Review and Science Bulletin -- now point to micro-quasars powered by black hole accretion as the leading explanation.
From Science Daily
“Reduced home equity accretion, in an environment of flattish home price growth, could over time increase the amount of mortgage risk in the system.”
From Barron's
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