incrementn.
/ˈɪnkrɪmənt/ 1. † b. Increase of prosperity; advancement: cf. increase v. 4, increase n. 4. Obsolete or archaic.
a. The action or process of increasing or becoming greater, or (with plural) a particular case or instance of this; increase, augmentation, growth.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]
waxingc1055
increasingc1340
increasec1374
echinga1382
creasing1398
augmentinga1400
alarginga1425
moringa1425
augmentc1425
incrementc1425
creasec1440
increasement1509
enlarginga1513
enlargement1564
amplification1569
accession1570
usury1576
enhancement1577
growth1587
creasement1592
accrease1598
crescence1602
improvement1607
excrement1608
majoration1626
heightening1629
auction1692
turgescence1806
outgrowth1837
steepening1868
prolating1919
upgrading1920
c1425 Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S) 29 The desirid helth by certeyne incrementys began to come Ageyne.
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 2979 Joseph a son growing or increment [v.r. encrees] is for to say.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 333 It was beaten..into the heades of the common people..that the Roode (or Crucifix) of this church, did by certaine incrementes continually waxe & growe.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. §11. 144 They prayed..that Christ's kingdome upon earth might have its proper increment.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xvii. 171 The increment of the Nails is very natural.
1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. I. ii. 149 An affection produced by custom..owes its birth and increment to time, owes its decay the same cause.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 218 We add daily increments to our knowledge and science.
1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. viii. 264 A standing proof of the increment of dignity which conspicuous height gives to a town construction.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 532 Woody plants..in which the limit of the annual increment of growth is sharply defined by the layer of periderm formed at [the] outer side [of the cortex].
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun]
growingc1380
profitingc1384
increasec1385
bettering?c1425
progress1457
advancementc1475
service1533
progression1586
increment1609
upgrowinga1618
flowering1629
rise1676
development1756
evolution1796
march1818
headway1832
upgrowth1844
upbuilding1876
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xiv. xi. 27 Turning to and fro, as she knoweth full well, the weights of increments and detriments both, of risings and fallings.
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 70 Celebrated benefactors to Londons Clergy, and Religious Increment.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. i. 396 Majesty, by way of increment to Hacke..has lately made him ‘Master of the Hunt’.
c. The waxing of the moon: spec. in Heraldry.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of heavenly bodies or phenomena > [noun] > the moon in its various forms
crescent1486
increscent1572
complement1610
decrement1610
increment1610
decrescent1616
plenitude1863
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > crescent moon > waxing
springc1440
springing?1440
increase1555
increment1610
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. iii. 91 According to the diuers apparitions of the Moone, hath she her diuers denominations in Heraldrie; as her Increment, in her Increase.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 21/2.
1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xii. 71 She is Increscent, or in Increment, when her horns point to the dexter.
d. Rhetoric. ‘An advancing from weaker to stronger expressions, an ascending towards a climax’: = Latin incrēmentum in Quintilian (Lewis & Short).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > climax
gradation1538
climax1572
auxesis1577
advancer1589
increment1753
1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 132 Incrementum..is a form of speech which by degrees ascends to the top of something, or rather above the top, that is, when we make our speech grow and increase by an orderly placing of words, making the later word alwayes exceed the former in the force of signification..It is a kind of a Climax.]
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Increment..in rhetoric, a species of climax, which rises from the lowest to the highest.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Increment..4. (Rhet.) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: ‘Finally, brethen, whatsoever things are true……’ Phil. iv. 8.
1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Increment..5. Rhet. A form of discourse that consists in repeating with increasing emphasis an already emphatic statement, as in ‘he is a parricide—a parricide, I say; do you hear? a parricide!’]
a. A support for a growing plant. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > stake for plants
fork1389
incrementc1420
stakingc1440
stay1577
stick1577
bean-wood1584
pea stick1745
beanpole1798
stickings1800
bean-stick1823
pea-stake1840
flower-stick1881
pea-bough1885
trainer2004
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 189 Stakis longe ar vynys increment.
b. Nourishment. Obsolete.
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1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 61 The loosen'd Roots then drink Large Increment.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product > produce, yield, or return
gettinga1382
increasingc1384
fruitc1450
increase1560
growth1580
increment1593
brood1600
return1614
produce1650
improvement1706
out-turn1801
bag1858
production1878
1593 Bacchus Bountie in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 273 He promised to honour the eating thereof with the best increments of his overflowing tunne.
4.
a. Amount of increase; an amount or portion added to a thing so as to increase it, an addition; an amount gained, profit.unearned increment: see unearned adj. 2b.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun]
renta1225
winningsc1380
profita1382
profity1432
revenue1433
fruitc1450
luck?a1475
improvement1478
apports1481
penny-rent1502
importance1505
filthy lucre1526
rentally1534
entrataa1538
a quick return1583
incoming1596
entratec1599
advenue1600
coming in1600
income1601
intrade1604
intrado1609
ingate1621
audit1625
increment1631
indraught1633
velvet1901
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > an increase
eke894
increasec1384
eking1393
augmentationc1452
superexcrescence1479
access1548
accrue1548
accession1551
increasement1561
ekementa1603
afflux1603
accruement1607
increment1631
rise1654
plusa1721
raise1729
swell1768
gain1851
step-up1922
upcurve1928
build-up1943
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xix. 153 Should hee cast up his accompts..hee would finde his decrements great, his increments small.
1640–4 Sir E. Dering in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 293 In fewer Words than this Additional Increment, now offered to your Bill.
1794 R. Heron Information Powers at War The annual increment of the Population.
1861 7th Rep. Postmaster Gen. 20 in Parl. Papers XXXI. 197 Annual increments of salaries and wages.
1865 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. (ed. 6) v. ii. §5 I see no objection to declaring that the future increment of rent should be liable to special taxation.
1875 B. W. Richardson Dis. Mod. Life vi. 96 The increment of heat which proves fatal is from 11° to 12° Fahr. above the natural temperature of the animal.
1890 Morley Speech House of Commons The question of unearned increment will have to be faced before many years are over.
1892 Rep. Sel. Com. on Town Holdings p. xxv The person who has benefited by the unearned increment in the value of the land.
b. Mathematics and Physics. A small (or sometimes infinitesimal) amount by which a variable quantity increases (e.g. in a given small time); spec. the increase (positive or negative) of a function due to a small increase (esp. of unity) in the variable, as in the Method of Increments, now called the Calculus of Finite Differences (see difference n.1 4c).
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the world > relative properties > number > calculus > [noun] > differential calculus > differentiation > differential
differential1702
moment1706
momentane1706
increment1721
element1728
momentum1735
H1872
interval1918
differentio-differential1939
the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > function > value or set of values of > change in values > specific amount
increment1721
variation1810
1715 B. Taylor (title) Methodus Incrementorum.]
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Increment, in Algebra, signifies the infinitely small increase of a line in Fluxions, growing bigger by Motion.
1743 W. Emerson Doctr. Fluxions 2 The indefinitely small Portions of the Fluent which are generated in any indefinitely small Portions of Time are called Moments or Increments.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 352 The Supposition that Fluxions are not Increments, but relative Nothings.
1763 W. Emerson Method of Increments Pref. p. iv The Inventor of the Method of Increments was the learned Dr. Taylor.
1803 J. Wood Princ. Mech. (ed. 3) vii. 134 Equal increments of velocity are always generated in equal times.
1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) x. 80 The sum of all these increments of velocity..would in time become perceptible.
1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §28 Acceleration of velocity..is said to be uniform when the velocity receives equal increments in equal times.
c. Forestry. The increase in the quantity of wood produced by a tree or group of trees during a limited period; the value of this increase. Also attributive, as increment borer n. [translating German zuwachsbohrer (M. R. Pressler Zur Forstzuwachskunde (1868) 19] a kind of auger with a hollow bit, used to measure the magnitude of this increase in individual trees, by removing a piece of wood in which annual rings can be examined. increment boring n. the cylinder of wood removed from a tree by an increment borer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > tree-crop > measurements of standing timber
stumpage1854
scale1877
increment1889
taper1893
basal area1895
form factor1895
cruise1911
the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > tree-crop > measuring instrument
increment borer1889
1889 W. Schlich Man. Forestry I. ii. 167 The increment laid on by an individual tree does not by itself govern the increment produced per acre, because the latter is represented by the increment per tree, multiplied by the number of trees per acre.
1895 W. Schlich Man. Forestry III. i. 13 In the case of standing trees, the measurements are made with Pressler's Increment Borer.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 14 Increment, the volume or value of wood produced during a given period by the growth of a tree or of a stand.
1938 J. E. Weaver & F. E. Clements Plant Ecol. (ed. 2) ii. 34 The increment borer..removes a small core of wood from circumference to center, without injuring the tree.
1942 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 29 553/2 (caption) An increment boring from a butt treated western red cedar pole.
1967 T. E. Avery Forest Measurements xii. 210 In climates where tree growth is characterized by annual rings, ages of standing trees are usually determined by extracting a radial core of wood with an increment borer.
1972 N. D. G. James Arboriculturalist's Compan. xiv. 159 In forestry the measurement and calculation of increment can be of considerable economic importance.
5. A quantity obtained from another by increase or addition. Const. of. (rare.)
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > an increase > a quantity obtained from another by increase
accrual1799
increment1864
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic xii. 410 Each term may be an increment of its predecessor by the addition of a constant quantity.
1865 G. Grote Plato I. i. 11 (note) All [numbers] above ten were multiples and increments of ten.
6. attributive and in other combinations.
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1909 D. Lloyd George in Daily Chron. 23 Oct. 1/1 The increment duty, which I budgetted to yield £50,000 this year.
1910 Act 10 Edward VII c. 8 §2 (1) The increment value of any land shall be deemed to be the amount (if any) by which the site value of the land, on the occasion on which increment value duty is to be collected.., exceeds the original site value of the land as ascertained in accordance with the general provisions of this Part of this Act as to valuation.
1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Jan. 68 At a 30-msec interval the difference threshold for a decrease in pulse interval would be 30 msec, while the difference threshold for an increase in pulse interval would be five msec. These two types of difference thresholds will be referred to as decrement and increment thresholds, respectively.
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