increment

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Etymology [edit]

From Latin incrementum.

Noun [edit]

increment (plural increments)

  1. The action of increasing or becoming greater.
  2. (heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
  3. The amount of increase.

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Verb [edit]

increment (third-person singular simple present increments, present participle incrementing, simple past and past participle incremented)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
    • 1890, H. E. J. G. Du Bois, “On Magnetic Circuits”, Philosophical magazine‎, page 346: 
      ... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series.
    • 2007 Jan 23, “Busiest two weeks for recruiters”, Recruiter Magazine:
      public sector professional services recruitment, has seen a strong seasonal upturn which has incremented year on year since 2002 by an average of 12%.
    • 1984, Brian W. Kernighan; Rob Pike, The UNIX programming environment, page 124:
      The first for loop looks at each word in the input line, incrementing the element of array num subscripted by the word.

Usage notes [edit]

  • Used in many technical fields, especially in mathematics and computing.
  • Not included in general dictionaries (as of 2009).

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