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increment

noun
/ˈɪŋkɹɪmn̩t/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from incrēmentum
  2. inherited from encrement

Definitions

  1. The action of increasing or becoming greater.

    • 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.

  2. The amount of increase.

    • The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments.

  3. An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage

    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."

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.

    2. A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person…

      A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.

    3. To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

      • ... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series.
      • public sector professional services recruitment, has seen a strong seasonal upturn which has incremented year on year since 2002 by an average of 12%.
      • The first for loop looks at each word in the input line, incrementing the element of array num subscripted by the word.

The neighborhood

Derived

autoincrement, incremence, incremental, increment borer, in increment, microincrement, post-increment, pre-increment, unearned increment

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at increment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at increment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at increment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA