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incremental

adj

Etymology

From increment + -al.

derived from incrēmentum
inherited from encrement
formed as incremental — “increment + -al”

Definitions

Pertaining to an increment.
2
Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
- The replies to questions indicate that the technology provided noncontractually is generally more routine and incremental than that protected by contracts.
- We perform a full backup on Sunday, including the file foo.dat. On Wednesday, having modified foo.dat, it is stored on an incremental backup.

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Derived

incremental backup, incremental game, incrementalism, incrementalist, incrementalistic, incrementality, incrementalize, incrementally

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for incremental. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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