Incremence
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Incremental growth. rare, uncountable
"An aged earth in ruins, and a new World of barbaric nature in the west Discovered, and in European lands The great mind-harvest growing more and more With ardent incremence. Yet still this earth Is but a crescent sphere, half lit with dawn."
- 2 Incremental rate. rare, uncountable
"The Navy has programed over an incremence of 3 or 4 fiscal years, corrective measures in dikes and walls to protect their investment in this shipyard."
- 3 Division into increments. rare, uncountable
"The generalized preprocessing perceptron, ¹ as a function from [0, 1] ⁿ to R can be written as y = Φⁿᵢ₌₁ᵩᵢ(wᵢ, gᵢ (xᵢ)) where xᵢ are the inputs, gᵢ is in the preprocessing layer, wᵢ represents the uncertainty for the conclusion from xᵢ to the output y, φᵢ (wᵢ, sᵢ) represents the semantics of implication xᵢ →_(wi) y, and Φ corresponds to a logical disjunction that calculates an incremence of evidence. Typically, Φ has a greater function, and is an assembly of co-t-norms."
Example
More examples"An aged earth in ruins, and a new World of barbaric nature in the west Discovered, and in European lands The great mind-harvest growing more and more With ardent incremence. Yet still this earth Is but a crescent sphere, half lit with dawn."
Etymology
Alteration of the noun of action increment to form a noun of quality, on the pattern of incidence.
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