increment

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/ˈɪŋkrəmɛnt/

noun

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noun
A small increase in amount or level.
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noun
Extra detail
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 g...

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Every time you go through the cycle, you increment the counter by one.
The small increment made no impact on the projection.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 4

Also pronounced

/ˈɪŋkɹɪmn̩t/

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noun

Extra meanings

The amount of increase.
The action of increasing or becoming greater.
The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.

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the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies
A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself—as Greece by Persia; and Rome by Etruria, the Italian states, and Carthage.
The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments.

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the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies
1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin...
A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself—as Greece by Persia; and Rome by Etruria, the Italian states, and Carthage.
1832 June 9, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Sympathy of Old Greek and Latin with English—Roman Mind—War”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the La...
In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce.
1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263
The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments.
2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 90
... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series.
1890, H. E. J. G. Du Bois, “On Magnetic Circuits”, in Philosophical magazine, page 346

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Origin

noun

From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.

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noun

Each year, the company gives employees a small blank in their salary.