Incremence

Pronunciation

• RP enPR: Ä­nʹkrÄ­mÉ™ns, IPA: /ˈɪnkɹɪmÉ™ns/

Origin

Alteration of the noun of action increment to form a noun of quality, on the pattern of incidence.

Full definition of incremence

Noun

1. (rare) Incremental growth.
• 1864: T. Irwin, The Last Sibyl, in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, volume 64, pages 201–202An aged earth in ruins, and a new
  World of barbaric nature in the west
  Discovered, and in European lands
  The great mind-harvest growing more and more
  With ardent incremence. Yet still this earth
  Is but a crescent sphere, half lit with dawn.
• 1928: Congressional Serial Set, page 109 (United States Government Printing Office)This work is being carried on by annual increments of $300000, as part of the five-year program, and as successive incremence of funds become available the construction most urgently needed is undertaken during that year.
• 1969: Egon Diczfalusy (editor), Immunoassay of gonadotrophins: Karolinska Symposia on Research Methods in Reproductive Endocrinology. Transactions of the first Symposium held in Stockholm on September 23–25, 1969, page 358 (Periodica)If you give a small glucose load to 30 different people and do not allow for the fact that their basal blood sugars are all different, you may not see a significant rise in the mean blood sugar. Have you corrected your curves and tried to do these plots in terms of incremence and decremence from some starting point?
• 1994: Ronald R. Yager and Lotfi Asker Zadeh, Fuzzy Sets, Neural Networks, and Soft Computing, page 252 (2nd Ed.; Van Nostrand Reinhold; ISBN 0442016212, 9780442016210)When dealing with values in the unit interval we expect the speed of incremence to slow down the closer we come to maximal belief.
2. (rare) Incremental rate.
• 1955: Merger of Naval Supply Activities in the San Pedro-Long Beach Area: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session. September 15, 1955, issue 22, page 105 ^〃 (United States Government Printing Office)The Navy has programed over an incremence of 3 or 4 fiscal years, corrective measures in dikes and walls to protect their investment in this shipyard.
3. (rare) Division into increments.
• 1998: Françoise Fogelman-Soulié (editor) and Patrick Gallinari (editor), Industrial Applications of Neural Networks, page 429 (World Scientific

• The generalized preprocessing perceptron, ¹ as a function from 1 ⁿ to R can be written as y = Φⁿ_i=1

Related terms

• increment →
• incremental →
• incrementalism chiefly politics
• incrementalist chiefly politics
• increment borer forestry
• increment boring forestry
• Method of Increments mathematics and physics
• incrementation obsolete, rare