increment
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Is increment a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (rhetoric) 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."rhetoric
2. (chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
3. (grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.Examples: "... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series."; "public sector professional services recruitment, has seen a strong seasonal upturn which has incremented year on year since 2002 by an average of 12%."; "The first for loop looks at each word in the input line, incrementing the element of array num subscripted by the word."intransitivetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary