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Definition of Increment

1. Noun. A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important. "The growth of population"

2. Noun. The amount by which something increases. "They proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare"

Definition of Increment

1. n. The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.

Definition of Increment

1. Noun. The action of increasing or becoming greater. ¹

2. Noun. (heraldry) The waxing of the moon. ¹

3. Noun. The amount of increase. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Increment

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Increment

1. 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." 3. 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. 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, 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. Origin: L. Incrementum: cf. F. Increment. See Increase. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Increment

incredibly increditable incredulities incredulity incredulous incredulously incredulousness incremable incremate incremated

incremates incremating incremation incremations incremence increment (current term) incremental incremental backup incremental cost incremental energy costs

incremental lines incremental lines of von Ebner incrementalism incrementalisms incrementalist incrementalists incrementality incrementally incrementation incremented

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