incremental adj : increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions; "lecturers enjoy...steady incremental growth in salary"

English

Adjective

1. Pertaining to an increment.

Translations

• Finnish: kasvu-, lisä-, inkrementaalinen
• German: inkremental

Derived terms

• incrementalism
• incrementalist
• incrementally

An increment is an increase, either of some fixed amount, for example added regularly, or of a variable amount. For example, a salary may receive an annual increment. A decrease would rather be called a decrement.

Incremental may also refer to gradual change as opposed to massive, instant change.

Use in science and technology

Use in programming languages

Incrementing is of constant use in computer programming, such as in loops that iterate through a set of items one at a time.

For example, in JavaScript, the increment operator works like the following: x++ Where the decrement operator is: x-- In addition, the increment operator can be written both as x++ and ++x, with separate meanings. For example: var y = ++x is shorthand for: x = x+1 var y = x however, var y = x++ is shorthand for: var y = x x = x+1 --x instead of x-- follows similar behaviour.

See also

• Stride of an array
• Successor function
• Counting