incrementally

[ in-kruh-men-tl-ee, ing- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

by a series of increases or additions:
Salary for this position starts at $50,338, rising incrementally to $54,113 per annum.
Instruments are incrementally added to the song to build up and fill out the chords.

First recorded in 1825–35; incremental ( def ) + -ly ( def )

MEGAN: I get conflicting stories about whether battery cost is falling a great deal, or only slowly and incrementally improving.

Public coffers have been receiving incrementally more payroll taxes, property taxes, corporate income taxes, and sales taxes.

American courts are at last, finally, coming up with sane solutions … but oh so slowly and incrementally.

These hackers have incrementally more powerful computers, but what are they doing?

How do things change—if they change—incrementally, over time?

Incrementally, reason trickled back into my mind, and with it came ire.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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