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equicrescent

equicrescent adjective: increasing by equal increments.

Adjective

equicrescent (not comparable)

  1. Increasing by equal increments.
    • It is well to notice that t, time, is an equicrescent variable, i.e., grows in equal steps. Thus, although time continually increases, it does so uniformly, so that the differential increment, dt, is constant, although time, t, is itself variable.1913, Louis Adolphe Martin, Text-book of Mechanics, Volume 2
    • A variable regarded as taking on equal increments is an equicrescent variable.1916, Mansfield Merriman, American Civil Engineers' Pocket Book

Origin of equicrescent

From equi- + crescent.

Words that rhyme with equicrescent

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Questions about equicrescent

What does equicrescent mean?
Equicrescent means increasing by equal increments.
What part of speech is equicrescent?
Equicrescent is an adjective.

Words near equicrescent in the dictionary

  1. equicoordinate
  2. equicorrelate
  3. equicorrelated
  4. equicorrelation
  5. equicorrelations
  6. equicrescent
  7. equicrural
  8. equicrure
  9. equiculture
  10. equid
  11. equideceleration

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