increment

Speech parts

1. increment - Noun

2. increment - Verb

Meaning

The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.

Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement.

The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.

An amplification without strict climax,

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

addition increase growth expansion supplement enlargement delta inc development degree unit annex gradation addendum cumulation
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Antonyms

decrement loss fall cut dent deflate
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Hypernyms

process amount physical process

Hyponyms

rise gain raise boost multiplication supplement

Phrases with the word

in increment growth increment annual growth increment tree growth increment budget increment 15 minute increment

Examples

I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour. William Stanley Jevons

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it. Jerome Groopman

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. William Graham Sumner

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State. William Graham Sumner

They themselves do not cultivate the soil. Nor do they allow others to cultivate it. They keep it idle to enrich themselves, to pocket the millions of dollars of unearned increment. Eugene V. Debs

the increase in unemployment Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

incremate incremation incremence increment borer increment boring incrementable