Equicrescent

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Increasing by equal increments. not-comparable

    "It is well to notice that t, time, is an equicrescent variable, i.e., grows in equal steps. Thus, although time continually increases, it does so uniformly, so that the differential increment, dt, is constant, although time, t, is itself variable."

Example

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"It is well to notice that t, time, is an equicrescent variable, i.e., grows in equal steps. Thus, although time continually increases, it does so uniformly, so that the differential increment, dt, is constant, although time, t, is itself variable."

Etymology

From equi- + crescent.

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