Increment vs Advantage - 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."
Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
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(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians ii. 11
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.
(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in a advantageous position.
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Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
* Shakespeare
To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.
(reflexive) To do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of.
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Increment is a related term of advantage.
As nouns the difference between increment and advantage
is that increment is increment while advantage is any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.As a verb advantage is
to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.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
* decrementadvantage
English
Alternative forms
* advauntage (obsolete)Noun
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- Give me advantage of some brief discourse.
- the advantages of a close alliance
- Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.
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- Webb played an advantage that enabled Cazorla to supply a low cross from the left for Giroud to sweep home first time, despite Gallas and Vertonghen being in close attendance.
- And with advantage means to pay thy love.
Synonyms
* foredeal, benefit, value, edge * vantageAntonyms
* disadvantage, drawbackDerived terms
* advantage ground * advantageous * advantageously * advantageousness * have the advantage * take advantageVerb
(advantag)- No man of courage vouchsafeth to advantage himselfe of that which is common unto many.