Definition of Incriment
In"cre*ment (?), n. [L.
incrementum: cf. F. incrément. 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The action of increasing or becoming greater.
- (heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
- The amount of increase.
- (transitive & intransitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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