Increment vs Attainment - What's the difference?
increment | attainment | Related terms |
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 attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by exertion or effort.
That which is attained, or obtained by exertion; acquisition; acquirement.
Increment is a related term of attainment.
As nouns the difference between increment and attainment
is that increment is increment while attainment is the act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by exertion or effort.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.