Equicrescent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Equicrescent is an adjective meaning (mathematics) Increasing by equal increments.
Meaning
(mathematics) Increasing by equal increments.
Example Sentences
A variable regarded as taking on equal increments is an equicrescent variable.
The scale I2 is equicrescent, i. e., its subdivisions subtend equal angular intervals at the pivot point.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include equinumerous, equimultiple, equicontinuous, geometric, equiconvergent, congruential.
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