Increment vs. Increasement: What's the Difference?
Increment and Increasement Definitions
Increment
The process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent.
Increasement
(rare) An increase; growth.
Increment
Something added or gained
A force swelled by increments from allied armies.
Increasement
(rare) An increment; an addition; augmentation.
Increment
A slight, often barely perceptible augmentation.
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Increasement
Increase.
Increment
One of a series of regular additions or contributions
Accumulating a fund by increments.
Increment
(Mathematics) A small positive or negative change in the value of a variable.
Increment
The action of increasing or becoming greater.
Increment
(heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
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Increment
The amount of increase.
Increment
(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."
Increment
(chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
Increment
(grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
Increment
To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
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Increment
The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.
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.
Increment
Matter added; increase; produce; production; - opposed to decrement.
Increment
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.
Increment
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.
Increment
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;
The increase in unemployment
The growth of population
Increment
The amount by which something increases;
They proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare
