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incremence

UK/ˈɪnkɹɪməns/

incremence noun: incremental growth.

Noun

incremence (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Incremental growth.
    • An aged earth in ruins, and a new
      World of barbaric nature in the west
      Discovered, and in European lands
      The great mind-harvest growing more and more
      With ardent incremence. Yet still this earth
      Is but a crescent sphere, half lit with dawn.1864, T. Irwin, “The Last Sibyl”, in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, volume 64, pages 201–202
    • This work is being carried on by annual increments of $300000, as part of the five-year program, and as successive incremence of funds become available the construction most urgently needed is undertaken during that year.1928, Congressional Serial Set, United States Government Printing Office, page 109
  2. (rare) Incremental rate.
    • The Navy has programed over an incremence of 3 or 4 fiscal years, corrective measures in dikes and walls to protect their investment in this shipyard.1955: Merger of Naval Supply Activities in the San Pedro-Long Beach Area: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress...
  3. (rare) Division into increments.
    • The generalized preprocessing perceptron, ¹ as a function from [0, 1] ⁿ to R can be written as y = Φⁿᵢ₌₁ᵩᵢ(wᵢ, gᵢ (xᵢ)) where xᵢ are the inputs, gᵢ is in the preprocessing layer, wᵢ represents the uncertainty for the conclusion from xᵢ to the output y, φᵢ (wᵢ, sᵢ) represents the semantics of...1998: Françoise Fogelman-Soulié (editor) and Patrick Gallinari (editor), Industrial Applications of Neural Networks, page 429 (World Scientific; →ISBN, 981023175X)

Examples of incremence in a sentence

  • Have you corrected your curves and tried to do these plots in terms of incremence and decremence from some starting point?1969: Egon Diczfalusy (editor), Immunoassay of gonadotrophins: Karolinska Symposia on Research Methods in Reproductive Endocrinology....
  • When dealing with values in the unit interval we expect the speed of incremence to slow down the closer we come to maximal belief.1994, Ronald R. Yager, Lotfi Asker Zadeh, Fuzzy Sets, Neural Networks, and Soft Computing, 2nd edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, page...

Origin of incremence

Alteration of the noun of action increment to form a noun of quality, on the pattern of incidence.

Questions about incremence

What does incremence mean?
Incremence means incremental growth.
How do you use incremence in a sentence?
Have you corrected your curves and tried to do these plots in terms of incremence and decremence from some starting point?
What part of speech is incremence?
Incremence is a noun.
How do you pronounce incremence?
Incremence is pronounced /ˈɪnkɹɪməns/ (UK).

Words near incremence in the dictionary

  1. incremated
  2. incremates
  3. incremating
  4. incremation
  5. incremations
  6. incremence
  7. increment
  8. increment borer
  9. increment borers
  10. incrementability
  11. incrementable

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