Increment

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An amplification without strict climax.

II. Increment ·noun Matter added; increase; produce; production;

— opposed to decrement.

III. Increment ·noun The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.

IV. Increment ·noun The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.