incrementally
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3.8
- adverb
- /ˌɪnkrəˈmɛntəli/
:
gradualmente
- The software updates were released incrementally, adding features gradually over several months.
- build incrementally
- change incrementally
- proceed incrementally
And what you see is each piece gets incrementally more complicated, right?
- And what you see is each piece gets incrementally more complicated, right?
- And it's like, it just, it doesn't incrementally change my life in any way.
- No, no, let's raise people's levels incrementally, and that's an improvement in the world.
- There's a lot happening, you know, to make these products not just incrementally better, but vastly better.
- They can't do things incrementally tonight in the time that we are here.
- I go from what I know to the next step incrementally.
- Change, transformation, even incrementally, is essential.
- Often time when we look at straight size mass production, it's, you know, it does get incrementally longer.
- I mean, how did you get that figured out very gradually and incrementally?
- When I was young, I'd found my life perturbed incrementally by the implausible truth of my embodiment.
- So they're going through incrementally, but they're going towards their kind of whole house retrofit in.
- And, you know, we can incrementally add a certain amount that would mean it was worth keeping, right?
- My thing is like if I have to get information out of you, like incrementally, like come on bro, it's done.
Examples
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When presented with new mandates, the agency implements them slowly and incrementally or resists altogether.
Academic text (1991) -
So are the ways in which Chinese society continues to open and diversify, incrementally creating a civil society.
Academic text (2008) -
But you train incrementally and you look for small slow progress.
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Often time when we look at straight size mass production, it's, you know, it does get incrementally longer.
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And, you know, we can incrementally add a certain amount that would mean it was worth keeping, right?
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We win incrementally and stay on the right side of history.
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And what you see is each piece gets incrementally more complicated, right?
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So gradually, incrementally, things slightly change over time.
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You have to work incrementally so that things sink in.
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People switch jobs, careers, schools, etc., to try to incrementally improve their current situation.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
273
1.9
Slowly and steadily over time
129
2.1
In a regular way without stopping
35
4.1
It happens more and more over time
5
3.5
You do things gradually, finishing one part before the next
4
5.2
In a way that small amounts add up over time
Antonyms
How Gradual
Surface Forms
Morphology
incrementally = incremental (transparent) = increment + al + ly
The adverb is a regular derivation from the adjective 'incremental' with the productive suffix '-ly'.
Etymology
Incrementally comes from increment, which means a 'small increase' and is like the everyday word increase. Imagine adding a little bit at a time, like turning a dial a tiny step, so to do something incrementally is to move forward 'by small amounts' or 'step by step'.