increment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
    increase; growth.
    • the increase in unemployment
    • the growth of population
  2. noun the amount by which something increases
    increase.
    • they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare

WordNet

In"cre*ment noun
Etymology
L. incrementum: cf. F. incrément. See Increase.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913