Crossword clues for increment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Increment \In"cre*ment\, n. [L. incrementum: cf. F. incr['e]ment. See Increase.]
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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.
--Woodward.A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
--Coleridge. Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement. ``Large increment.''
--J. Philips.(Math.) 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.
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(Rhet.) 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.
--Phil. iv. 8.Infinitesimal increment (Math.), an infinitesimally small variation considered in Differential Calculus. See Calculus.
Method of increments (Math.), a calculus founded on the properties of the successive values of variable quantities and their differences or increments. It differs from the method of fluxions in treating these differences as finite, instead of infinitely small, and is equivalent to the calculus of finite differences.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "act or process of increasing," from Latin incrementum "growth, increase; an addition," from stem of increscere "to grow in or upon" (see increase). Meaning "amount of increase" first attested 1630s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of increasing or becoming greater. 2 (context heraldry English) The wax of the moon. 3 The amount of increase. 4 (context rhetoric English) 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." vb. (context intransitive transitive English) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
WordNet
n. a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" [syn: increase, growth] [ant: decrease, decrease]
the amount by which something increases; "they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare" [syn: increase] [ant: decrease]
Wikipedia
Increment or incremental may refer to:
- Incrementalism, a theory (also used in politics as a synonym for gradualism)
- Increment and decrement operators, the operators ++ and -- in computer programming
- Incremental computing
- Increment, chess term for additional time a chess player receives on each move
- Incremental games
- Increment in rounding
Usage examples of "increment".
In quick succession she activated wingtip fences and leading-edge slats, dropped the first increment of flaps, and armed hover blasters.
And then Hala jerked back, and her feet left the ground in small levitating increments until Mathew stared up, slack-jawed, at the soles of her feet.
The other is the Spencerian way, by functional increment, that is to say, by the effect of increased use and constant exposure to varying circumstances during conscious life.
The other is the Spencerian way, by functional increment, that is to say by the effect of increased use and constant exposure to varying circumstances during conscious life.
Then you noticed the tiny orange jewelAlpha Centauri A's somewhat cooler companion about three billion miles awayoverhead, adding its own increment to the glorious daylight.
When she was about a thousand feet above the ground - it was hard to tell from looking outside, and she had no idea about the increments on the cockpit indicators - she used the antigravity control.
As the rope jerked back toward her in quarter-inch increments, she planted her feet firmly against the concrete and willed her legs to straighten.
Swearing softly, Cassie rolled it down to reveal in increments the face of her husband, Mark.
Then, tightening or loosening his facial muscles one by one in small increments, it little by little expunged the frozen look of suffering from his face.
These had been all white, meaning unwholesomely rich in greens and blues and carmines, and very pallid to begin with, earning slow increments of honey and ultimate toffee as the sun slowly chewed them.
Now that which is of divine birth has a period which is contained in a perfect number, but the period of human birth is comprehended in a number in which first increments by involution and evolution (or squared and cubed) obtaining three intervals and four terms of like and unlike, waxing and waning numbers, make all the terms commensurable and agreeable to one another.
At this height," two inches above the knee, "I killed a lioness, stabbing her with my assegai when she attacked my herd-" Patiently Craig heard out the tale as it rose in small increments to shoulder height and Shadrach ended, "And you dare to ask me what I know about cattle!
Eddie hadn't had a raise in seventy-six years, and it still irritated him that the BBChan personnel department had decided that he wasn't entitled to service increments because he'd been in cryosuspension for most of that time.
She turned herself around, moving in small, cautious increments and breathing deeply so that she would not whimper from the pain emanating from those parts of her that were most tender and vulnerable and yet had been most viciously depredated by her captors.
If sometimes all he could do was flush a cherry bomb down a public toilet, he would advance chaos by that tiny increment while he awaited opportunities to do greater damage.