Increment vs Accumulation - What's the difference?
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The action of increasing or becoming greater.
* Woodward
* Coleridge
(heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
The amount of increase.
(rhetoric) 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 act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
A mass of something piled up or collected.
(legal) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
(accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
(finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
As nouns the difference between increment and accumulation
is that increment is the action of increasing or becoming greater while accumulation is the act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.As a verb increment
is to increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.increment
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Derived terms
* incremence (rare) * incrementalUsage notes
* Used in many technical fields, especially in mathematics and computing.Antonyms
* decrementaccumulation
English
Noun
(en noun)- an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, or of honors
