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Dictionary: in·cre·ment   (ĭn'krə-mənt, ĭng'-) pronunciation
n.
  1. The process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent.
  2. Something added or gained: a force swelled by increments from allied armies.
  3. A slight, often barely perceptible augmentation.
  4. One of a series of regular additions or contributions: accumulating a fund by increments.
  5. Mathematics. A small positive or negative change in the value of a variable.

[Middle English, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscere, to increase. See increase.]

incremental in'cre·men'tal (-mĕn'tl) adj.
incrementally in'cre·men'tal·ly adv.
incrementality in'cre·men·tal'i·ty (-tăl'ĭ-tē) n.

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Statistics Dictionary: increment
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A small change in the value of a variable.



To add a number to another number. Incrementing a counter means adding 1 to its current value.

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Thesaurus: increment
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noun

    The amount by which something is increased: advance, boost, hike, increase, jump, raise, rise. See increase/decrease.

Antonyms: increment
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n

Definition: gain
Antonyms: decrease, loss, reduction


Law Dictionary: Increment
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An amount of increase or gain in number, amount or value; as to salaries, increments "are the periodic, consecutive additions or increases which do not become a part of the salary . . . Until they accrue under the rule making such provision. . . ." 29 A. 2d 890, 891.

Veterinary Dictionary: increment
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1. an increase or addition; the amount by which a value or quantity is increased.
2. the early stage of fever, where the temperature is rising; clinically there is shivering, coldness of the skin, and absence of sweating.

Word Tutor: increment
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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: The amount or degree by which something changes.

pronunciation Writing the book was easier to do in small increments.

Wikipedia: Increment
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An increment is an increase of some amount, either fixed or variable. For example one's salary may have a fixed annual increment or one based on a percentage of its current value. A decrease is called a decrement.

Incremental may also refer to gradual change, as opposed to massive, instant change.

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Use in science and technology

Incremental changes are gradual improvements as opposed to revolutionary, paradigm-breaking changes - i.e. whereas the invention of inner tube tires was only an incremental change to wheels, the invention of the combustion engine was a revolutionary change over animal-drawn vehicles.

Use in games

In chess, an increment refers to the additional time a player receives on each move. See Glossary of chess#Increment.

Use in programming languages

In computer programming, to increment means to increase by 1, and to decrement means to decrease by 1.

Increment operator

Some languages, such as C, C++, Java and JavaScript, have special increment and decrement operators.

In JavaScript, the increment unary operator works like the following:

x++

Where the decrement operator is:

x--

In addition, the increment operator can be written both as x++ and ++x, with separate meanings. For example:

 var y = ++x

is known as preincrement, shorthand for:

 x = x+1
 var y = x

however,

var y = x++

is known as postincrement, shorthand for:

 var y = x
 x = x+1

--x (predecrement) instead of x-- (postdecrement) follows similar behavior.

Some languages, such as C and C++, do not specify when the increment occurs, whether immediately before (or after) use, at the beginning (or end) of the statement, or at some point in between. For this reason, referencing a variable more than once in a statement where the increment operator is used results in undefined behavior. The same code may produce different results on different compilers, different architectures, or even the same compiler with different optimization settings. For example,

int x = 0
x = x++

may result in x having either the value 0 or 1. Similarly,

int x = 0
int y = x++ + x++

may result in y having either the value 0 or 1 or even 2.

In C++, the nested increment operator is allowed but for only pre-increment and it is not applicable for the decrement operator.

         Ex: int x = 0;
             ++(++x); is allowed but (x++)++, --(--x) or (x--)-- are not possible.

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Translations: Increment
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - forøgelse, tilvækst, løntillæg, værdiforøgelse, værdistigning

idioms:

  • incremental backup    sikkerhedskopi af ændrede data

Nederlands (Dutch)
salarisverhoging, vergroting, toename, stap

Français (French)
n. - (Fin) augmentation, (Comput, Math) incrément, (Comput) pas de progression, (Math) valeur de progression

idioms:

  • incremental backup    (Comput) sauvegarde incrémentielle

Deutsch (German)
n. - Erhöhung, Zuwachs

idioms:

  • incremental backup    inkrementeller Backup

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (προσ)αύξηση, επαύξηση, προσθήκη, κέρδος

idioms:

  • incremental backup    (Η/Υ) συμπληρωματικό αντίγραφο ασφαλείας

Italiano (Italian)
incremento, aumento

Português (Portuguese)
n. - incremento (m)

Русский (Russian)
увеличение, прирост

Español (Spanish)
n. - incremento, aumento

idioms:

  • incremental backup    respaldo incremental

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - (till)ökning, (löne)tillägg, värdestegring, inkrement (matem.), differential (matem.)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
增加, 增量, 增值

idioms:

  • incremental backup    增量备份

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 增加, 增量, 增值

idioms:

  • incremental backup    增量備份

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 증대, 이득

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 増加, 増大, 増加量, 増額, 利益

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) زيادة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תוספת, גידול, שיעור גדילה‬


 
 

 

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