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Noun

increase (countable and uncountable, plural increases)

1. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
   • An increase of about 30% in hits on the website.

   Synonyms:

   gain

2. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
   • In socialist religion God was replaced by humanity, a superior creation in which the individual could find an object of love and worship: he could thus rise above his insignificant ego and experience the joy of sacrificing his own interest to the infinite increase of collective Being..1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...

   Synonyms:

   enlargement

3. Offspring, progeny.
   • That infortunate imperfit Embrion of my idle houres the Ile of Dogs before mentioned, breeding vnto me ſuch bitter throwes in the teaming as it did, and the tempeſtes that aroſe at his birth, ſo aſtoniſhing outragious and violent as if my braine had bene conceiued of another Hercules, I was ſo...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 2
4. (crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

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Noun

imitation (countable and uncountable, plural imitations)

1. The act of imitating.
   • a pale imitation
2. (attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.
   • imitation leather