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noun

Increment n.

1.

The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. "The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies." "A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself."

2.

Matter added; increase; produce; production; opposed to decrement. "Large increment."

3.

(Math.) 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.

4.

(Rhet.) 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."

Infinitesimal increment (Math.), an infinitesimally small variation considered in Differential Calculus. See Calculus.

Method of increments (Math.), a calculus founded on the properties of the successive values of variable quantities and their differences or increments. It differs from the method of fluxions in treating these differences as finite, instead of infinitely small, and is equivalent to the calculus of finite differences.

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"Increment" Quotes from Famous Books

... inheritor of profiteering in particular, but guilty simply as an inheritor. It might have been different if he had come into the money in reasonable instalments, say of five thousand pounds every six months. But a hundred thousand unearned increment at one coup...!) Fortunately the cronies were still in the smoking-room. He swept Bishop from the club, stealthily, swiftly. Bishop had a big ...

— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett

... persuade her over into New Jersey. It did not please Jim to have to follow the example of Zada and Cheever, and it hit him as a peculiar cruelty that he and Charity had to accept not only an unearned increment of scandal in the verdict of divorce, but also a marriage contrary to the ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... those who receive their incomes from railways or electric lighting plants; and the odor of gas stocks is unmistakable. Even the land, once the retreat of high birth and serene dignity, is beginning to exhale a miasma of corruption. "Enriched by unearned increment"—who wishes such an epitaph? A convention is to be held in a western city in this very year, to announce to the world that the delegates and their constituencies—all honest lovers of mankind—will refuse in future to recognize any private title to land or other natural resources. Holders ...

— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various

... unearned increment given to private properties by the social organism was talked of in my day," I said, "but only, as I remember, with reference to land values. There were reformers who held that society had the right to take in taxes all increase in value of ...

— Equality • Edward Bellamy

... some progress along another line. Supertax, death duties, and taxes on unearned increment do a little to diminish the wealth of the few: old age pensions, national insurance, and workmen's compensation do something towards mitigating the poverty of ...

— The History of the Fabian Society • Edward R. Pease

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