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Increment vs Incrementality - What's the difference?

increment | incrementality |

As nouns the difference between increment and incrementality

is that increment is the action of increasing or becoming greater while incrementality is the property or characteristic of being incremental.

As a verb increment

is to increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

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

    incrementality

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The property or characteristic of being incremental.
  • The amount of change caused by a small increment of input.