Definitions for increment

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increment in·cre·ment

Spelling: [in-kruh-muh nt, ing-]

IPA: /ˈɪn krə mənt, ˈɪŋ-/

Increment is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 279 anagrams from letters in increment (ceeimnnrt).

Definitions for increment

noun

1. something added or gained; addition; increase.
2. profit; gain.
3. the act or process of increasing; growth.
4. an amount by which something increases or grows:
5. one of a series of regular additions:
6. Mathematics. the difference between two values of a variable; a change, positive, negative, or zero, in an independent variable. the increase of a function due to an increase in the independent variable.

Origin of increment

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin incrēmentum an increase, equivalent to incrē(scere) to grow (see increase) + -mentum -ment

Examples for increment

This extra product can be attributed entirely to the increment of labor.

An increment of growth so minute as a millionth part of a mm.

There is some increment there that we make possible that would not otherwise be there.

Washington's wealth was due in part to inheritance and a fortunate marriage, but most of all to the increment on land.

It is a vicious circle, yet, somehow or other, there is an increment.

And here I found the last piece of my narrative, in the British special-forces capability known as “The increment.”

No attempt is made to segregate the entries by year, since we are interested in the total, not the annual increment.

All this increment should come to our nation and not go to any other.

"My doctor" knows much: but, if he should enlarge his knowledge just a little, my faith in him would stand the increment.

All the increment of human achievement goes to themthey own it a priori.