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Increment
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- 1 The action of increasing or becoming greater.
"the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies"
- 2 the amount by which something increases wordnet
- 3 The amount of increase.
"In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce."
- 4 a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important wordnet
- 5 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." rhetoric
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- 6 The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
- 7 A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
- 1 To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one. intransitive, transitive
"... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series."
Etymology
From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.
From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.
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