increment : Idioms & Phrases

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Infinitesimal increment

  • (Math.), an infinitesimally small variation considered in Differential Calculus. See Calculus.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

Unearned increment

  • noun an unearned rise in the market value of property resulting from general market factors
WordNet
  • (Polit. Econ.), a increase in the value of land due to no labor or expenditure on the part of the owner, but to natural causes, such as the increase of population, the growth of a town in the vicinity, or the like. Some hold that this should belong to the nation.
Webster 1913