Increment

An increment is an increase of some amount, either fixed or variable. For example one's salary may have a fixed annual increment or one based on a percentage of its current value. A decrease is called a decrement.

Increment or incremental may also refer to:

• Gradual change, as opposed to massive, instant change
• Incrementalism, a theory
• Incremental innovation
• Incremental health risk, in environmental remediation
• Incremental dating
• Incremental reading
• Incremental sheet forming

Computing

• Increment operator and decrement operator, the operators ++ and -- in computer programming
• Incremental backup
• Incremental computing
• Incremental concept formation
• Incremental decision tree
• Incremental development, in software development
  • Incremental build model
  • Incremental funding methodology
• Incremental compiler
• Incremental find
• Incremental gradient descent
• Incremental heuristic search
• Incremental persistence
• Incremental rendering

Economics

• Incremental capital-output ratio
• Incremental cost
• Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio
• Incremental operating margin
• Tax incremental financing

Gaming

• Increment, in chess, refers to the additional time a player receives on each move
• Incremental health, in video gaming

See also

• Decrement (disambiguation)

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