Definitions
the amount by which something increases
Word origin
From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.
Used in a sentence
“the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies”
“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.”
“The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Added amount”9 letters
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