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incremental
Word definitions for incremental in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions; "lecturers enjoy...steady incremental growth in salary"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining to an increment. 2 Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incremental \In`cre*men"tal\, a. (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1715, from increment + -al (1). Related: Incrementally .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES incremental backup COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN approach ▪ The incremental approach is often appropriate for any child with considerable learning difficulties. ▪ In the incremental approach , choices are typically ...
Usage examples of incremental.
At this rate, she would find herself doing more and more public relations until by incremental degrees she was squeezed out of real paleobiology entirely.
Yet the incremental cost of a given mission was in the many tens of millions of dollars, something like one thousandth the total cost of the Apollo program.
We think Nautilus should be able to return enough water to fuel a further twenty to fifty NEO exploration missions, at minimal incremental cost.
There are lots of bells and whistles, too - onomatopoeia, incremental repetition, stream of consciousness, interior dialogue, changes of verbal tense (it has become quite fashionable to tell stories, especially shorter ones, in the present tense), the sticky question of back story (how do you get it in and how much of it belongs), theme, pacing (we'll touch on these last two), and a dozen other topics, all of which are covered - sometimes at exhausting length - in writing courses and standard writing texts.
A melange of very specific thoughts on child-rearing, education, prenatal care, preschooling, and the like, her book was an exercise in just the sort of incremental post-health care reform advocacy that the polling had indicated would be most popular.