Increment

Quick meaning: Increment is a noun meaning The action of increasing or becoming greater.

Meaning

The action of increasing or becoming greater.

More Meanings

1. The amount of increase.
2. (chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
3. (grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
5. (rhetoric) 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."

Example Sentences

the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies

The first for loop looks at each word in the input line, incrementing the element of array num subscripted by the word.

The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments.

public sector professional services recruitment, has seen a strong seasonal upturn which has incremented year on year since 2002 by an average of 12%.

Word Forms

• increments
• incrementing
• incremented

Synonyms for increment

Depending on context, synonyms include enlargement, expansion, addition, supplement, growth, increase.

Antonyms for increment

Common opposites include decrement, decrease.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include increase, growth, increasing, growing, augment, augmentation.

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