Increment

/ˈɪŋkɹɪmn̩t/ · noun

Meaning

The action of increasing or becoming greater..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself—as Greece by Persia; and Rome by Etruria, the Italian states, and Carthage.

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.

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

... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series.

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

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

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Word Forms

• increments
• incrementing
• incremented

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