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Definition: Incremental |
IncrementalAdjective1. Increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions; "lecturers enjoy...steady incremental growth in salary". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents incorporates the principle that unwanted behavior can be changed by clear demonstration of the desired behavior and consistent reward of incremental steps toward achieving it. Therapeutic activities include fulfilling specific assignments, rehearsing desired behaviors, and recording and reviewing progress, with praise and privileges given for meeting assigned goals. (references) | |
Business | Recent investments in plants have generated incremental demand for forestry products. (references) | |
Moreover, since farmers are switching to less familiar non-traditional crops such as specialty fruits and vegetables, there is incremental demand for modern specialized equipment. (references) | ||
As part of its DSM program, EGAT provides eligible companies with pre-financing loans (repayable in three years with no interest) for the incremental cost of purchasing high efficiency motors. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Tajikistan | There was continued incremental progress during the year in returning occupied houses to their original UTO fighter owners (approximately 15,000 to 16,000 persons). (references) |
Economic History | Taiwan | The development of semiofficial cross-Strait relations has been incremental. (references) |
Chad | Chad has made incremental progress in improving public finances and implementing structural reforms. (references) | |
Political Economy | JAPAN | However, progress has been incremental and access to the telecommunications' and broadcasting market in Japan remains constrained by both regulatory and anti-competitive practices. (references) |
PHILIPPINES | Firms which earn at least 50 percent of their revenues from exports may register for certain tax credits under the "Export Development Act" (EDA), including a tax credit based on incremental export revenues. (references) | |
PHILIPPINES | BOI-registered firms that locate in less developed areas may be eligible to claim a tax deduction of up to 100 percent of outlays for infrastructure works and 100 percent of incremental labor expenses also for the first five years from registration. (references) | |
Trade | India | In the case of foreign banks, the incremental gross NPAs as percentage of total assets increased from 3.3 percent in 1998-99 to 4.1 percent in 1999 -2000 while net NPAs to total assets declined by 2.1 percent. (references) |
Travel | Korea | Even though Korean attitudes are making incremental changes and women are making progress, women professionals at the highest levels are still very rare. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Ross Perot | Well, again, we do need campaign reform. It's very difficult to get, if this does occur, it's an incremental first step. That's better than nothing. But it's a long way from where the whole process needs to go. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Incremental" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incremental" is used about 264 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 264 | 18,152 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "incremental": incremental analysis ♦ incremental backup ♦ incremental command ♦ incremental constraint solver ♦ incremental cost ♦ incremental encode ♦ incremental Prototyping Technology for Embedded Realtime Systems ♦ incremental sensitivity ♦ incremental sensor. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "incremental": non-incremental. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
incremental encoder | 40 |
incremental encoders | 25 |
incremental backup | 23 |
incremental | 10 |
1.31 1.4.exe 1942 battlefield incremental | 8 |
incremental model | 7 |
development incremental | 6 |
incremental cost | 4 |
incremental cash flow | 3 |
incremental innovation | 3 |
incremental shuttle test walking | 3 |
incremental sales | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "incremental"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 增 (Accession, Accrual, Add, Added, Adding, increased, increasing, increment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | inkrementel føler (incremental encode, incremental sensor), trinændringsordre (incremental command, regulating step command, step by step adjusting command), trinændringskommando (incremental command, regulating step command, step by step adjusting command), forventet langsigtet gennemsnitlig differensomkostning (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | incrementele sensor (incremental encode, incremental sensor), incrementele lange-termijnkosten (long-run avoidable cost, long-run incremental cost), incrementele kosten (incremental cost), vermijdbare lange-termijnkosten (long-run avoidable cost, long-run incremental cost), stapcommando (incremental command, regulating step command, step by step adjusting command), op lange termijn verwachte gemiddelde incrementele kosten (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pulssianturi (incremental encode, incremental sensor), askelohjaus (incremental command, regulating step command, step by step adjusting command). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | incrémentiel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | inkremental. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μελλοντοστραφές μακροπρόθεσμο μέσο οριακό κόστος (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), μελλοντοστραφής μακροπρόθεσμη μέση οριακή δαπάνη (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), μακροπρόθεσμο οριακό κόστος (long-run avoidable cost, long-run incremental cost, long-run marginal cost), αποφευκτέο μακροπρόθεσμο κόστος (long-run avoidable cost, long-run incremental cost), αυξητικός κωδικοποιητής (incremental encode, incremental sensor), οριακό κόστος (incremental cost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | növekvő (ascendant, crescent, cumulative, thriving), járulékos (accessory, adjunct, appurtenant, circumstantial, collateral), differenciális (differential), adalékos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | costo incrementato medio prospettivo di lungo periodo (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), costo incrementale di lungo periodo (long-run avoidable cost, long-run incremental cost), costo incrementale (incremental cost), costo evitabile di lungo periodo (long-run avoidable cost, long-run incremental cost), comando di regolazione passo per passo (incremental command, regulating step command, step by step adjusting command), codificatore incrementale (incremental encode, incremental sensor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 増分 , イメージ調査 (99.999999999 percent., bad bounce, bad hop, ear protector, ear valve, earmark, earphone, earring, eleven, eleven nines, eraser, eruption, Ile de France, illegal, Illinois, illumination, illumination control, illusion, illustrated map, illustration, illustrator, image change, image survey, in, include, income, income gain, income tax, increment, incremental business, incubate, incubation, incubator, ink, inn, Iran, Iraq, iridium, irony, Iroquois, irrational, irregular, irregular bound, yearbook, year-round fashion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぞうぶ", インクリメンタル . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 증대. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | brashagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | incrementalay comando passo-a-passo (incremental command, regulating step command, step by step adjusting command), comando de regulação por degraus (incremental command, regulating step command, step by step adjusting command), codificador incremental (incremental encode, incremental sensor). (various references) увеличивающийся (augmentative, towering), возрастающий (escalating, growing, rising), пошаговый (single-shot, step-type, step-wise). (various references) incremental. (various references) inkrementell sensor (incremental encode, incremental sensor), inkrementell encoder (incremental encode, incremental sensor), stegändringskommando (incremental command, regulating step command, step by step adjusting command). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | speñta. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "incremental": incrementalism, incrementalisms, incrementalist, incrementalists, incrementally. (additional references) | |
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"Incremental" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inclemental, incramental, incrementals, incrementaly, incrementer, incrementic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "incremental" (pronounced i'nkrume"ntul or i'nkrume"nul) |
| 8 | -r u m e" n t u l | detrimental, experimental, instrumental, temperamental. |
| 7 | -u m e" n t u l | elemental, fundamental, monumental, ornamental, regimental, sentimental, supplemental, unsentimental. |
| 6 | -m e" n t u l | compartmental, developmental, environmental, intergovernmental, judgmental, mental, nongovernmental. |
| 5 | -e" n t u l | accidental, coincidental, continental, dental, gentle, incidental, intercontinental, lentil, occidental, oriental, parental, rental, transcendental, transcontinental. |
| 4 | -n t u l | Cantle, consonantal, disgruntle, dismantle, frontal, governmental, horizontal, infantile, lintel, mantel, mantle, periodontal, prefrontal, quintal, Wintle. |
| 3 | -t u l | acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, committal, congenital, crustal, crystal, digital, distal, ductile, embattle, entitle, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, futile, genital, glottal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, infertile, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, little, marital, metal, mettle, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pedestal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, premarital, prenatal, projectile, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, resettle, scuttle, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, tactile, tattle, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transmittal, turtle, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle. |
| 5 | -m e" n u l | departmental. |
| 4 | -e" n u l | fennel, kennel. |
| 3 | -n u l | abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, carnal, channel, coeducational, collisional, Colonel, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, cornel, correctional, criminal, Darnel, delusional, denominational, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, diurnal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, empanel, erosional, eternal, exceptional, external, factional, faunal, fictional, final, flannel, fluxional, foundational, fractional, fraternal, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, impersonal, improvisational, infernal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, internal, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, journal, jurisdictional, juvenile, kernel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, maternal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nocturnal, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, panel, paternal, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, polyvinyl, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, semifinal, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, spinal, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl, virginal, vocational. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-m-n-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: mercantile. | |
-2 letters: alinement, ancienter, inclement, increment, interclan, interlace, intermale, lineament, nectarine. | |
-3 letters: antimere, centiare, clarinet, creatine, elaterin, entailer, entrance, incenter, increate, internal, iterance, lamenter, lanneret, materiel, melanite, metrical, narceine, realtime, reliance, remanent, terminal, trainmen, tramline, treenail. | |
-4 letters: ailment, aliener, aliment, ancient, arenite, article, atelier, cannier, canteen, carline, carmine, cementa, centare, centile, centime, centner, central, ceratin, certain, claimer, cleaner, clement, climate, creatin, cremate, crenate, emerita, eminent, emirate, enamine, encinal, enteral, enteric, enticer, entrain, etamine, eternal, interne, lantern, latrine, lectern, lenient, licente, lineate, lineman, linemen, maltier, manlier, mannite, mantric, marline, marlite, matinee, mealier, meatier, melanic, melanin, menacer, metical, minaret, mineral, miracle, narcein, nematic, raiment, ratline, recital, reclaim, reclame, reclean, recline, reenact, reliant, remnant, reticle, retinae, retinal, tacrine, teleman, teleran, tiercel, trainee, treacle, trenail. | |
-5 letters: acetin, airmen, aliner, almner, amerce, anemic, antler, armlet, atelic, calmer, camlet, canine, cannel, canner, cannie, canter, cantle, careen, carlin, carmen, carnet, carnie, cartel, catlin, ceiler, cement, centai, cental, center, centra, centre, cerate, cereal, cerite, cermet, cetane, cinema, citral, claret, client, create, crenel, cretin, ecarte, eclair, elater, elmier, emetic, emetin, enamel, enatic, encina, enlace, entail, entera, entice, entire, ermine, etamin, iceman, icemen, imaret, inaner, incant, inlace, inmate, innate, intern, lacier, lament, lancer, lancet, lanner, larine, lateen, leaner, learnt, lectin, lenten, lentic, lierne, limner, linear, linnet, linter, mailer, malice, maline, manner, mantel, mantic, mantle, marcel, marine, marlin, marten, martin, mealie, meaner, meanie, melter, menace, menial, mental, merlin, metier, metric, milter, mincer, minter, mitral, nailer, narine, neaten, neater, nectar, raceme, ramtil, ratine, ratlin, recane, recant, recent, recite, rectal, reemit, relace, relate, relent, relict, reline, remail, remain, remate, remelt, remint, renail, rename, rennet, rental, retail, retain, reteam, retial, retile, retime, retina, retine, rictal, tailer, tamein, tanner, tannic, tanrec, tenace, tenail, teniae, tenner, tenrec, tercel, tierce, tincal, tineal, tinman, tinmen, tinner, tramel, trance, triene, trinal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-m-n-n-r-t" | |
+2 letters: incrementally, interlacement. | |
+3 letters: incrementalism, incrementalist, interlacements, nongeometrical, reminiscential. | |
+4 letters: incrementalisms, incrementalists, semitranslucent. | |
+5 letters: anticonglomerate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 63 72 65 6D 65 6E 74 61 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.-. .-. . -- . -. - .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100011 01110010 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n c r e m e n t a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0063 0072 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380698471797180866778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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