increment
nounThe process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent.
nounSomething added or gained.
nounA slight, often barely perceptible augmentation.
nounOne of a series of regular additions or contributions.
nounA small positive or negative change in the value of a variable.
nounIn forestry, the volume or value of wood produced during a given period by the growth of a tree or of a stand. See
A uniform variation; a regular increase.
nounThe act or process of increasing; a growing or swelling in bulk, quantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation.
nounSomething 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.
nounIn 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.