increment
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈɪŋkrəmənt/
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incremento
- The point here is that the amount of fuel you need for every increment of payload grows exponentially.
- increments of 10
- small increments
- increments of 10 kg
They're they're attuned to tiny little increments of differences.
- They're they're attuned to tiny little increments of differences.
- So I said to myself, in small increments, I can learn to do these pitches.
- If I did this little thing, things would be just an increment better.
- Not if you do it in increments.
- And you can see contempt show up in the small six second increments.
- And as it got longer in evolution, the marginal cost of each successive increment in the detour was slight.
- So a lot of your work looks at kind of the ways in which small increments of economic growth compound over time.
- You know, you can deviate in small increments and over a few years it it, it total, it totals up.
Examples
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The information in Table 1 shows that equal increments of activity produce ever-decreasing discoveries.
Academic text (1991) -
Response choices ranged in yearly increments from "none" to "ten years or more."
Academic text (2012) -
So your goal is to make today some tiny increment better than yesterday.
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It's not as if I'm asking for a salary increment or time off for it.
Fiction book (1996) -
So as time goes on, the increment per year gets bigger and bigger, and eventually it outruns resource growth.
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In government service, every year we get five rupees increment.
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So I said to myself, in small increments, I can learn to do these pitches.
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So a lot of your work looks at kind of the ways in which small increments of economic growth compound over time.
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After the addition of each increment, solutions were manually shaken to ensure thorough mixing.
Academic text (2015) -
We receive a yearly salary increment of five percent to keep up with inflation.
Synonyms
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1.6
A person, thing, or extra part put into something to improve it
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1.0
The extra amount added to something to make it larger
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1.9
An increase in amount or value
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3.6
An increase in amount, level, or strength
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5.6
A small rise in the level or value of something
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
An increase in value of land or buildings caused by outside events, not by the owner's work
How Big
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∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Increment comes from Latin parts in- and crescere, where crescere means 'to grow' and is the same root you see in increase. An increment is a small 'growth' or rise, so it now means a regular small amount that is added.