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Increment vs Augmentation - What's the difference?

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Increment is a related term of augmentation.


As nouns the difference between increment and augmentation

is that increment is increment while augmentation is the act or process of augmenting.

increment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of increasing or becoming greater.
  • * Woodward
  • the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies
  • * Coleridge
  • A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
  • (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."
  • Derived terms

    * incremence (rare) * incremental

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
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  • Usage notes

    * Used in many technical fields, especially in mathematics and computing.

    Antonyms

    * decrement

    augmentation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of augmenting.
  • (heraldry) A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
  • (medicine) A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
  • (medicine) The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
  • (music) a compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by multiplying the length of each note by the same number
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