INCREMENT meaning: Increase by a specific amount

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General (26 matching dictionaries)

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increment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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increment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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increment: Online Etymology Dictionary
increment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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increment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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increment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
increment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Computing (3 matching dictionaries)

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Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

increment: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The action of increasing or becoming greater.
▸ noun:  The amount of increase.
▸ noun:  (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."
▸ noun:  (chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
▸ noun:  (grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

Opposite:

decrement, decrease

Types:

nanometer, micrometer, millimeter, centimeter, meter, yard, foot, inch, mile, fathom, more...

Phrases:

unearned increment, increment borer, infinitesimal increment, increment borers, post increment, more...

Adjectives:

unearned, annual, small, additional, total, next, average, mean, net, last, significant

Colors:

blue, green, yellow, orange, red, more...

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