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incremental

incremental adjective: pertaining to an increment.

Adjective

incremental (comparative more incremental, superlative most incremental)

  1. Pertaining to an increment.
    Synonyms:
    gradual
    Antonyms:
    decremental
  2. Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
    • The replies to questions indicate that the technology provided noncontractually is generally more routine and incremental than that protected by contracts.1997, Paul W. Beamish, J. Peter Killing, Cooperative Strategies: Asian Pacific perspectives, page 202
    • We perform a full backup on Sunday, including the file foo.dat. On Wednesday, having modified foo.dat, it is stored on an incremental backup.2025, Richard Fox, Information Technology: An Introduction for Today's Digital World, page 437

incremental meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

incremental in Hindi

वृद्धिशील, वृद्धिमान

incremental in Tamil

ஏற்றத்துக்குரிய, கூடுதல்முறை

incremental in Urdu

افزائشی

incremental in Bengali

বৃদ্ধিশীল
More languagesFewer languages
incremental in Gujarati
વૃદ્ધિશીલ
incremental in Odia
ବୃଦ୍ଧିଶୀଳ
incremental in Nepali
वृद्धिशील
incremental in Indonesian
inkremental

Examples of incremental in a sentence

  • We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that time is over.
  • Any autonumber has three parts: a fixed prefix, an incremental number, and a changing suffix.
  • Chinese factories often engaged in this sort of quality fade—the incremental degradation of a product over time.

All 16 example sentences with incremental

Synonyms of incremental

Antonyms

Forms of incremental

comparativemore incremental
superlativemost incremental

Origin of incremental

From increment + -al.

Words formed from incremental

Phrases with incremental

Questions about incremental

What does incremental mean?
Incremental means pertaining to an increment.
What is incremental in Hindi?
Incremental in Hindi is वृद्धिशील, वृद्धिमान. See Incremental meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is incremental?
Incremental is an adjective.

Words near incremental in the dictionary

  1. increment
  2. increment borer
  3. increment borers
  4. incrementability
  5. incrementable
  6. incremental
  7. incremental backup
  8. incremental backups
  9. incremental game
  10. incremental games
  11. incremental learning

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: incremental (page history and authors); incremental (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incremental (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incremental (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incremental (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incremental (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incremental (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incremental (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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