Incremental vs Piecemeal - What's the difference?
incremental | piecemeal |
Pertaining to an increment.
Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.
* 1947 -
* 1953 , James Strachey, translation of , Avon Books, pg. 224:
Piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees.
* 1914 -
Into pieces or parts.
* 1888 - (London), October 03
Incremental is a see also of piecemeal.
As adjectives the difference between incremental and piecemeal
is that incremental is pertaining to an increment while piecemeal is made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.As a adverb piecemeal is
piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees.As a verb piecemeal is
to divide or distribute piecemeal; dismember.As a noun piecemeal is
a fragment; a scrap.incremental
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* incrementalism * incrementalist * incrementalize * incrementallypiecemeal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis, as various crises develop.
- But the copious and intertwined associative links warrant our accepting the former alternative: cyclamen—favourite flower—favourite food— artichokes; pulling to pieces like an artichoke, leaf by leaf (a phrase constantly ringing in our ears in relation to the piecemeal dismemberment of the Chinese Empire)—herbarium—bookworms, whose favourite food is books.
Usage notes
Nouns to which "piecemeal" is often applied: fashion, approach, basis, way, change, reform, measure.Derived terms
* piecemeal approachQuotations
* (English Citations of "piecemeal")See also
* gradual * incrementalAdverb
(en adverb)- It’s as bad as selling a man a horse with half a dozen latent vices and watching him discover them piecemeal in the course of the hunting season.
- A few years ago also there was the case of Kate Webster, who at Richmond murdered her mistress, and, fiend-like, cut the body up piecemeal , and tried to dispose of it in various ways by small portions.