Increment vs Augment - What's the difference?
increment | augment |
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."
To increase; to make larger or supplement.
(reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
(music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
(grammar) To add an augment to.
(grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e-'' (''a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
As nouns the difference between increment and augment
is that increment is the action of increasing or becoming greater while augment is in some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.As verbs the difference between increment and augment
is that increment is to increase by steps or by a step, especially by one while augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement.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
* decrementaugment
English
Verb
(en verb)- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.