Usually means: Progressing in increments, not reversing.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word ratcheting:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. ratcheting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ratcheting: Merriam-Webster
  3. ratcheting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ratcheting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Ratcheting, ratcheting: Wordnik
  6. ratcheting: Wiktionary
  7. ratcheting: Dictionary.com
  8. ratcheting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ratcheting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. ratcheting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ratcheting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ratcheting: Medical dictionary

(Note: See ratchet as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ratcheting)

noun:  The act by which something is ratcheted.
noun:  A conjurers' trick of bending an object back and forth to induce metal fatigue, so that it can be broken later by rubbing it.

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