Increment vs Increasement - What's the difference?
increment | increasement |
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."
(rare) An increase; growth.
(rare) An increment; an addition; augmentation.
*1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
*:... diminishing the velocity with decreasements like to the increasements acquired in the descent
As nouns the difference between increment and increasement
is that increment is the action of increasing or becoming greater while increasement is an increase; growth.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.