increment
IPA: ˈɪnkrʌmʌnt
noun
- The action of increasing or becoming greater.
- The amount of increase.
- (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."
- (chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
- (grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
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Examples of "increment" in Sentences
- The employees were happy about wage increment.
- He has now stopped his increment for three years.
- Each would increment the positioning of the two scales.
- As the snail grows, the shell is added onto in increments.
- The article states that the increment direction goes downhill.
- This increment would be due to the additional day in the year 1900.
- This increment would be due to the additional day in the year 2012.
- The capacity of the new bus is also an increment over its predecessor.
- Thus increment is added to the other parameters controlling the feedwater.
- The amount per blob increases in increments determined on the number of tricks.
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