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Increment vs Incrementation - What's the difference?

increment | incrementation |

Incrementation is a related term of increment.



As nouns the difference between increment and incrementation

is that increment is the action of increasing or becoming greater while incrementation is the act or process of incrementing.

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

    incrementation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of incrementing

    • Antonyms

    * decrementation