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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
incremental
adjective
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■ NOUN
approach
▪ The incremental approach is often appropriate for any child with considerable learning difficulties.
▪ In the incremental approach, choices are typically marginal changes from existing policies.
▪ The initial distribution between capitation and other expenditure followed an incremental approach as it was based on previous patterns of expenditure.
▪ There is an incremental approach to the budgetary process. 3.
▪ But as long as this incremental approach remains half-hearted, wholesale abandonment of parts of the city begins to make grim sense.
change
▪ Hiser suggested making incremental changes in cooking, eating and exercising.
▪ A disposition to incremental change can deflect one from considering or even comprehending wider and more fundamental problems.
▪ But incremental changes for women, important as they are to individuals, are not structural changes.
▪ However, we have a first-class record of incremental change.
▪ Behe contends that evolutionists never try to explain how complex systems might have arisen through incremental changes.
▪ Unlike Big Ideas that beget standardized commodities, these products undergo a continuous process of incremental change and adaptation.
▪ True mastery of design and development in multimedia demands more than an incremental change in existing established skills.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A marginal tax rate is the tax paid on additional or incremental income.
▪ At best the ads would attract a very small incremental audience to the network.
▪ Behe contends that evolutionists never try to explain how complex systems might have arisen through incremental changes.
▪ In descriptive terms the argument is that decision-making is always incremental.
▪ Since the incremental value is encoded in the operation field, there is room to specify a store address in the instruction.
▪ The training promises to provide empirical evidence of incremental improvements in staff effectiveness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incremental

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
incremental

1715, from increment + -al (1). Related: Incrementally.

Wiktionary
incremental

a. 1 Pertaining to an increment. 2 Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.

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WordNet
incremental

adj. increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions; "lecturers enjoy...steady incremental growth in salary"

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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.