increment

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UI athletic director Robert Spear tried to fudge the raise as one based on future performance, but the increment was added to his base salary before the season began.

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  1. noun The process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent.
  2. noun Something added or gained: a force swelled by increments from allied armies.
  3. noun A slight, often barely perceptible augmentation.

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  • Now G G B namely the increment in the value of the entrepreneur's equipment beyond the net value which he has inherited from the previous period, represents the entrepreneur's current investment in his equipment and can be written I . —  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: Project Gutenberg Australia
  • "It won't give a significant mass increment, and might add an extra scattering component to the neutron beams Sir?" —  Cascade Point
  • We had an expense of $20.0 million in 2008 and the increment is $120.0 million. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • The suggestion following this variety of chubby burning increment is they assist shift overweight set down out of storage space and then permit the deceased to glow it while force during the sunlight hours. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Since there are options strikes to sell each month at each $1 increment, there will be many opportunities to roll the callers and putters along, making another nice way of collecting a monthly income to offest your fuel bill. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
 

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decrease ·  adjustment ·  outlay ·  output ·  deviation ·  percentage ·  diminution ·  decline ·  gradient ·  shift ·  digit ·  correction

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increment:   increments
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscere, to increase; see increase.

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  1. = French incrément = Spanish Portuguese Italian incremento, from Latin incrementum, growth, increase, from increscere, increase: see increase.
 

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/ˈɪnkrəmənt/
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