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increment

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun increment has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

incrementn. [L. incrementum: cf. F. incrément. See Increase.].
  •  The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.  [1913 Webster]
    "The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies."  [1913 Webster]
    "A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement.  J. Philips.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage:  [1913 Webster]
    "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."  [1913 Webster]
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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

increment, n.
1 a an increase or addition, esp. one of a series on a fixed scale. b the amount of this.
2 Math. a small amount by which a variable quantity increases.

Derivative
incremental adj.
Etymology
ME f. L incrementum f. increscere INCREASE

THESAURUS

increment

access, accession, accessory, accompaniment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, advance, aggrandizement, amplification, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appreciation, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascent, attachment, augment, augmentation, ballooning, bloating, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, coda, complement, concomitant, continuation, corollary, crescendo, development, edema, elevation, enlargement, expansion, extension, extrapolation, fixture, flood, gain, greatening, growth, gush, hike, increase, inflation, jump, leap, mounting, multiplication, offshoot, pendant, productiveness, proliferation, raise, reinforcement, rise, side effect, side issue, snowballing, spread, supplement, surge, swelling, tailpiece, tumescence, undergirding, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, waxing, widening

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Increase

N increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension, dilatation, increment, accretion, accession, development, growth, aggrandizement, aggravation, rise, ascent, exaggeration exacerbation, spread, flood tide, gain, produce, product, profit, increased, on the increase, undiminished, additional, crescendo, vires acquirit eundo.

Addition

N addition, annexation, adjection, junction, superposition, superaddition, superjunction, superfetation, accession, reinforcement, increase, increment, supplement, accompaniment, interposition, insertion, added, additional, supplemental, supplementary, suppletory, subjunctive, adjectitious, adscititious, ascititious, additive, extra, accessory, au reste, in addition, more, plus, extra, and, also, likewise, too, furthermore, further, item, and also, and eke, else, besides, to boot, et cetera, and so on, and so forth, into the bargain, cum multis aliis, over and above, moreover, with, withal, including, inclusive, as well as, not to mention, let alone, together with, along with, coupled with, in conjunction with, conjointly, jointly, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.

Adjunct

N adjunct, addition, additament, additum, affix, appelidage, annexe, annex, augment, augmentation, increment, reinforcement, supernumerary, accessory, item, garnish, sauce, accompaniment, adjective, addendum, complement, supplement, continuation, rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary, piece, flap, lappet, skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege, tail, suffix, wing, additional, alate, alated, winged, in addition.

Expansion

N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.

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