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incrementTo add a number to another number. Incrementing a counter means adding 1 to its current value. increment Maths a small positive or negative change in a variable or function. Symbol: Δ, as in Δx or Δf How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Their increment became yearly more and more unearned. And every year, every month, came some new increment to human achievement, a new country opened up, new mines, new scientific discoveries, a new machine! Now, after making the usual unjust allowance for interest on thirty pounds for twelve years or so that had elapsed, the sale of the picture would have brought me in a profit of over seven hundred and fifty pounds, an unearned increment to which I had no righteous claim. |
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