(geology) The digging away of material at the outer bank of a meandering stream and the simultaneous building up to the water level by deposition of material brought there by pushing and rolling along the stream bottom.
lateral accretion
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(′lad·ə·rəl ə′krē·shən)
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In geomorphology, the build-up of sediments at the slip-off slope of a river or during
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