increment

The process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent.

Something added or gained.

A slight, often barely perceptible augmentation.

One of a series of regular additions or contributions.

A small positive or negative change in the value of a variable.

In forestry, the volume or value of wood produced during a given period by the growth of a tree or of a stand. See accretion, 5.

A uniform variation; a regular increase.

The act or process of increasing; a growing or swelling in bulk, quantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation.

Something added; an increase or augmentation; specifically, in mathematics, the excess (positive or negative) of the value which a function would have if its independent variable were increased by any amount, especially by unity, over the value which it has for any particular value of the variable; the difference of a function; also, an arbitrary supposed increase of an independent variable.

In rhetoric, a species of amplification which consists in magnifying the importance of a subject (person or thing) by stating or implying that it has no superior, or that the greatest of all others is inferior to it: as, Thou hast slain thy mother. What more can I say? Thou hast slain thy mother.