Increment Meaning
/ˈɪŋkrəmɛnt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe action of increasing or becoming greater.
nounThe amount of increase.
Sentence Examples
Every time you go through the cycle, you increment the counter by one.
The small increment made no impact on the projection.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Each year, the company gives employees a small ____ in their salary.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The salary will increase by a small ____ every year as long as the employee performs well.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 […], →OCLC:
"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 Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 58:
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
Each year, the company gives employees a small ____ in their salary.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The salary will increase by a small ____ every year as long as the employee performs well.