Sekirov Dictionary

increment

/ˈɪŋkɹɪmn̩t/

noun 5
verb 1
forms 3

noun5

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The action of increasing or becoming greater.
- the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies — 1695
•
The amount of increase.
- The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments. — 2020
The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
(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."

verb1

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To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
- ... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series. — 1890

forms

incremented · incrementing · increments

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