Increment vs. Increasement
Difference Between Increment and Increasement
Incrementnoun
The action of increasing or becoming greater.
Increasementnoun
(rare) An increase; growth.
Incrementnoun
(heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
Increasementnoun
(rare) An increment; an addition; augmentation.
Incrementnoun
The amount of increase.
Incrementnoun
(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."
Incrementnoun
(chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
Incrementnoun
(grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
Incrementverb
To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
Incrementnoun
a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;
the increase in unemploymentthe growth of populationIncrementnoun
the amount by which something increases;
they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare
