INCREMENT

increase, increment

(noun) the amount by which something increases; “they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare”

increase, increment, growth

(noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; “the increase in unemployment”; “the growth of population”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

increment (plural increments)

The action of increasing or becoming greater.

(heraldry) The waxing of the moon.

The amount of increase.

(rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."

(chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.

(grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.

Synonyms

• (action of increasing or becoming greater): enlargement, expansion; See also augmentation

• (amount of increase): addition, supplement; See also adjunct

Antonyms

• (amount of increase): decrement; See also decrement

Verb

increment (third-person singular simple present increments, present participle incrementing, simple past and past participle incremented)

(intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

Usage notes

• Used in many technical fields, especially in mathematics and computing.

Antonyms

• decrement

Source: Wiktionary

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In"cre*ment, n. Etym: [L. incrementum: cf. F. incrément. See Increase.]

1. The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Coleridge.

2. Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement. "Large increment." J. Philips.

3. (Math.)

Definition: The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.

4. (Rhet.)

Definition: An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, . . . think on these things. Phil. iv. 8. Infinitesimal increment (Math.), an infinitesimally small variation considered in Differential Calculus. See Calculus.

– Method of increments (Math.), a calculus founded on the properties of the successive values of variable quantities and their differences or increments. It differs from the method of fluxions in treating these differences as finite, instead of infinitely small, and is equivalent to the calculus of finite differences.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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