Definition of: accrete

(ə·krēt′) v. ac·cret·ed, ac·cret·ing v.i.
1. To grow together or be united by adhesion: with to.
2. To increase by a series of additions.
—v.t.
3. To cause to grow together or be added: with to: The student should accrete discretion to the other qualities of mind.
—adjective
1. Formed or marked be accretions.
2. Bot. Grown together: said of parts normally separate. [<L accretus, pp. of accrescere.
See ACCRESCE.]