noun
Meaning 1
The action of increasing or becoming greater.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
increment
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noun
Meaning 2
The amount of increase.
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noun
Meaning 3
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."
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Usage: rhetoric
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noun
Meaning 4
The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
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Topics: board-games, chess, games
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noun
Meaning 5
A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
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Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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verb
Meaning 6
To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
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Usage: intransitive, transitive
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noun
Meaning 7
the amount by which something increases
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: increase
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: amount
Narrower terms: amplification, gain, fare increase, price increase, raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase, boost, cost increase, supplement, supplementation, tax-increase, tax boost, tax hike, up-tick
noun
Meaning 8
a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the increase in unemployment
- the growth of population
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: increase, growth
Antonyms: decrement
Broader terms: process, physical process
Narrower terms: accession, accretion, accumulation, multiplication, population growth, proliferation, pullulation, relaxation, widening, broadening
History
Etymology
From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: нарастване (narastvane) — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Bulgarian: увеличение (uveličenie) — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Dutch: toename — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Dutch: verhoging — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Finnish: kasvu — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- West-Frisian: ferheging — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- West-Frisian: tanimming — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Galician: aumento — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Galician: suba — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Galician: incremento — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- German: Erhöhung — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- German: Zunahme — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- German: Zuwachs — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Hebrew: תוספת (toséfet) — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Irish: breisíocht — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Irish: incrimint — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Latin: accretio — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Malayalam: വർധന (vaṟdhana) — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Norwegian: inkrementere — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Russian: приро́ст (priróst) — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Russian: инкремент (inkrement) — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Scottish Gaelic: ioncramaid — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Swedish: ökning — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Swedish: tillväxt — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Turkish: artım — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Turkish: artış — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Turkish: artma — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Turkish: çoğalma — The action of increasing or becoming greater
- Bulgarian: нарастване (narastvane) — The waxing of the moon
- Bulgarian: ръст (rǎst) — The amount of increase
- Bulgarian: прираст (prirast) — The amount of increase
- Dutch: toename — The amount of increase
- Dutch: verhoging — The amount of increase
- Finnish: kasvu — The amount of increase
- West-Frisian: tanimming — The amount of increase
- West-Frisian: ferheging — The amount of increase
- German: Inkrement — The amount of increase
- Irish: breisíocht — The amount of increase
- Irish: incrimint — The amount of increase
- Irish: breis — The amount of increase
- Japanese: 増分 (zoubun) — The amount of increase
- Japanese: 増加分 (zoukabun) — The amount of increase
- Japanese: 増加量 (zoukaryou) — The amount of increase
- Swedish: ökning — The amount of increase
- Swedish: inkrement — The amount of increase
- Tagalog: dugang — The amount of increase
- Esperanto: alkrementi — To increase in steps
- French: incrémenter — To increase in steps
- Indonesian: menaikkan — To increase in steps
- Italian: incrementare — To increase in steps
- Japanese: 増す (masu) — To increase in steps
- Spanish: incrementar — To increase in steps
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