Definitions
Happening in small regular steps.
Word origin
From increment + -al.
Used in a sentence
“The replies to questions indicate that the technology provided noncontractually is generally more routine and incremental than that protected by contracts.”
“We perform a full backup on Sunday, including the file foo.dat. On Wednesday, having modified foo.dat, it is stored on an incremental backup.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Step-by-step”11 letters
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