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in⋅cre⋅ment

  [in-kruh-muhnt, ing-]
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–noun
1. something added or gained; addition; increase.
2. profit; gain.
3. the act or process of increasing; growth.
4. an amount by which something increases or grows: a weekly increment of $25 in salary.
5. one of a series of regular additions: You may make deposits in increments of $500.
6. Mathematics.
a. the difference between two values of a variable; a change, positive, negative, or zero, in an independent variable.
b. the increase of a function due to an increase in the independent variable.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < L incrēmentum an increase, equiv. to incrē(scere) to grow (see increase ) + -mentum -ment

Related forms:
in⋅cre⋅men⋅tal  [in-kruh-men-tl, ing-] , adjective
in⋅cre⋅men⋅tal⋅ly, adverb
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in·cre·ment   (ĭn'krə-mənt, ĭng'-)   
n.  
  1. The process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent.
  2. Something added or gained: a force swelled by increments from allied armies.
  3. A slight, often barely perceptible augmentation.
  4. One of a series of regular additions or contributions: accumulating a fund by increments.
  5. Mathematics A small positive or negative change in the value of a variable.

[Middle English, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscere, to increase; see increase.]
in'cre·men'tal (-měn'tl) adj., in'cre·men'tal·ly adv., in'cre·men·tal'i·ty (-tāl'ĭ-tē) n.
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Increment

In"cre*ment\, n. [L. incrementum: cf. F. incr['e]ment. See Increase.]

1. The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.

The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. --Woodward.

A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. --Coleridge.

2. Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement. "Large increment." --J. Philips.

3. (Math.) The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.

4. (Rhet.) 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. --Phil. iv. 8.

Infinitesimal increment (Math.), an infinitesimally small variation considered in Differential Calculus. See Calculus.

Method of increments (Math.), a calculus founded on the properties of the successive values of variable quantities and their differences or increments. It differs from the method of fluxions in treating these differences as finite, instead of infinitely small, and is equivalent to the calculus of finite differences.
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Language Translation for : increment
Spanish: aumento,
German: der Zuwachs (die Lohnerhöhung),
Japanese: 増額
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increment 
c.1425, "act or process of increasing," from L. incrementum "growth, increase," from stem of increscere "to grow in or upon" (see increase). Meaning "amount of increase" first attested 1631.
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Main Entry: in·cre·ment
Pronunciation: 'i[ng]-kr&-m&nt, 'in-
Function: noun
1 a : something gained or added increment is in the neutrophilic leukocytes —W. A. D. Anderson> b : one of a series of regular consecutive additions (as ofgrowth or spread of disease)
2 : the amount or degree by which something changes; especially : the amount of positive or negative change in the value of one or moreof a set of variables —in·cre·men·tal /"i[ng]-kr&-'ment-&l, "in-/ adjective —in·cre·men·tal·ly /-&l-E/ adverb
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increment in·cre·ment (ĭn'krə-mənt, ĭng'-)
n.

  1. The process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent.
  2. Something added or gained.
  3. A small positive or negative change in the value of a variable.
in'cre·men'tal (-měn'tl) adj.

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