increment — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. The action of increasing or becoming greater.

   Esempi

   the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies

   Altri esempi (1)

   A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself—as Greece by Persia; and Rome by Etruria, the Italian states, and Carthage.

2. The amount of increase.

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce.

   The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments.

3. 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."

   Uso

   • rhetoric

4. The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.

5. A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.

Verbo

1. To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

   Uso

   • intransitivo
   • transitivo

   Esempi

   ... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series.

   public sector professional services recruitment, has seen a strong seasonal upturn which has incremented year on year since 2002 by an average of 12%.

   Altri esempi (1)

   The first for loop looks at each word in the input line, incrementing the element of array num subscripted by the word.

Sostantivo

1. a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

   Sinonimi

   increasegrowth

   Contrari

   decrement

   Termini più generali

   processphysical process

   Esempi

   the increase in unemployment

   the growth of population

2. the amount by which something increases

   Sinonimi

   increase

   Termini più generali

   amount

   Esempi

   they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare