increment

Meanings

Noun

• The action of increasing or becoming greater.
• The waxing of the moon.
• The amount of increase.
• 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."
• The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
• A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.

Verb

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

Related

Opposite words

• decrement

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin incrementum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō. Equivalent to increase + -ment.