increments

Noun

increment (plural increments)

1. The action of increasing or becoming greater.
   • the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   enlargement

2. The amount of increase.
   • In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over...1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263

   Synonyms:

   addition

3. (rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."
4. The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
5. A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.

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