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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Increment  \In"cre*ment\,  n.  [L.  incrementum:  cf  F. 
  incr['e]ment.  See  {Increase}.] 
  1.  The  act  or  process  of  increasing;  growth  in  bulk, 
  guantity,  number,  value,  or  amount;  augmentation; 
  enlargement. 
 
  The  seminary  that  furnisheth  matter  for  the 
  formation  and  increment  of  animal  and  vegetable 
  bodies.  --Woodward. 
 
  A  nation,  to  be  great,  ought  to  be  compressed  in  its 
  increment  by  nations  more  civilized  than  itself 
  --Coleridge. 
 
  2.  Matter  added;  increase;  produce;  production;  --  opposed  to 
  {decrement}.  ``Large  increment.''  --J.  Philips. 
 
  3.  (Math.)  The  increase  of  a  variable  quantity  or  fraction 
  from  its  present  value  to  its  next  ascending  value;  the 
  finite  quantity,  generally  variable,  by  which  a  variable 
  quantity  is  increased. 
 
  4.  (Rhet.)  An  amplification  without  strict  climax,  as  in  the 
  following  passage: 
 
  Finally,  brethren,  whatsoever  things  are  true, 
  whatsoever  things  are  honest,  whatsoever  things  are 
  just  whatsoever  things  are  pure,  whatsoever  things 
  are  lovely,  whatsoever  things  are  of  good  report,  . 
  .  .  think  on  these  things  --Phil.  iv  8. 
 
  {Infinitesimal  increment}  (Math.),  an  infinitesimally  small 
  variation  considered  in  Differential  Calculus.  See 
  {Calculus}. 
 
  {Method  of  increments}  (Math.),  a  calculus  founded  on  the 
  properties  of  the  successive  values  of  variable  quantities 
  and  their  differences  or  increments.  It  differs  from  the 
  method  of  fluxions  in  treating  these  differences  as 
  finite,  instead  of  infinitely  small  and  is  equivalent  to 
  the  calculus  of  finite  differences. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  increment 
  n  1:  a  process  of  becoming  larger;  "the  increase  in 
  unemployment";  "the  growth  of  population"  [syn:  {increase}, 
  {growth}]  [ant:  {decrease},  {decrease}] 
  2:  the  amount  by  which  something  increases;  "they  proposed  an 
  increase  of  15  percent  in  the  fare"  [syn:  {increase}] 
  [ant:  {decrease}]




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