incremental
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4.8
- adjective
- /ˌɪnkrəˈmɛntəl/
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incremental
- The team implemented small incremental improvements to the project each week.
- incremental improvements
- incremental changes
- incremental steps
And so we get outsized returns for incremental improvements here.
- And so we get outsized returns for incremental improvements here.
- So both of them I would say are incremental changes.
- Is this product going to keep going through the incremental changes of those specs?
- So it's making small incremental changes on the daily basis.
- We are the product of tiny incremental changes that compound over time.
- Each of the game benchmarks seems to tell the same old story of incremental performance bumps.
- There's a series of incremental positive acts.
- Rotations you can build up by little incremental things.
- This was this was socially incremental and you can't do that.
- Desire is an incremental way of enhancing our life.
- It must have come about by a gradual, step by step incremental progressive process.
Examples
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So it's making small incremental changes on the daily basis.
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The journey has been so incremental and so episodic, it's just a mountain that keeps getting higher.
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So both of them I would say are incremental changes.
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For hundreds of years, things were moving slow enough that incremental thinking could get us there.
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In other words, modest incremental steps, right?
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We are the product of tiny incremental changes that compound over time.
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Taken together, this is a large package of incremental changes that may create many new pathways to coverage.
Academic text (2011) -
Every year that you live there will be an incremental addition to your life's health.
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I favor the daily power of the secure and the predictable: the incremental, steady, enduring journey.
Fiction book (2001) -
Nevertheless, the longer a company invests in such incremental improvements, the lower the returns tend to be.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
75
3.0
Happening slowly and steadily, not suddenly
52
4.9
Happening slowly over time and becoming more serious
Compounds
How Gradual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Incremental comes from increment, which comes from an old root meaning 'to grow', and you can see the same idea in the common word increase. So something incremental happens by small additions or steps, not all at once.