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Progressive vs Increment - What's the difference?

progressive | increment |

As nouns the difference between progressive and increment

is that progressive is a member or supporter of a while increment is increment.

As an adjective progressive

is belonging to or supporting a.

progressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
  • Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
  • Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas or methods.
    • a progressive politician
    progressive business leadership
  • Of or relating to progressive education.
    • a progressive school
  • (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
  • Advancing in severity.
    • progressive paralysis
  • liberal (politically)
  • (grammar) continuous

    • Antonyms

    * regressive * (advancing in severity) non-progressive * conservative

    Derived terms

    * progressive euchre * progressiveness * progressivism * progressivity

    Related terms

    * progress

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
  • (grammar) A progressive verb.

    • Derived terms

    * future perfect progressive * future progressive * past perfect progressive * past progressive * present perfect progressive * present progressive

    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