increment

Meaning

Noun

1. The action of increasing or becoming greater.
2. The amount of increase.
3. (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."
4. The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
5. A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.

Verb

To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

Synonyms

increase

growth

addition

augmentation

raise

gain

supplement

rise

enlargement

swell

magnification

augment

incr

extension

add

incrementation

escalation

expansion

gaining

grow

inclusion

increasing

incremental

insertion

intake

intensification

intermixture

interpolation

interspersion

multiplication

recharge

replenishment

surcharge

slope up

“diff”

cut-in

step value

increase of value

groundwater recharge

groundwater replenishment

incremental cost

groundwater increment

transmission gain

accession

incremental quantity

accessory

accretion

accrual

accruement

added value

Translations

incremento

augmentation

Zunahme

incremento

aumento

αύξηση

Zuwachs

incremento

incrementare

Erhöhung

incrémenter

incrementar

προσαύξηση

accroissement

incrément

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɪŋkɹɪmn̩t/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: encrement

In summary

From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.