INCREASING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does increasing mean? 

• INCREASING (adjective)
  The adjective INCREASING has 2 senses:

1. becoming greater or larger

2. (music) increasing in tempo and/or volume

  Familiarity information: INCREASING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCREASING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Becoming greater or larger

Context example:

increasing prices

Similar:

accelerative; acceleratory (tending to increase velocity)

accretionary (marked or produced by accretion)

accretive (growing by accretion)

augmentative (increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree)

incorporative (growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories)

maximising; maximizing (making as great as possible)

multiplicative (tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree)

profit-maximising; profit-maximizing (making the profit as great as possible)

progressive (gradually advancing in extent)

raising (increasing in quantity or value)

Antonym:

decreasing (becoming less or smaller)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(music) increasing in tempo and/or volume

Similar:

accelerando ((music) gradually increasing in tempo)

crescendo ((music) gradually increasing in volume)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Antonym:

decreasing ((music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume)

 Context examples 

Baseek was old, and already he had come to know the increasing valour of the dogs it had been his wont to bully.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group).

(Accession, NCI Thesaurus)

Further studies are needed to determinewhether a higher level of adipsin in humans protects them from developing diabetes and whether increasing adipsin levels would reduce the risk of developing diabetes in certain populations.

(New Potential Approach Found to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Meg got behind his chair under pretense of smoothing the wrinkles out of his tired forehead, and standing there, she said, with her panic increasing with every word...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On this scale, a pH value of 7 is neutral, and a pH value of less than 7 to 0 shows increasing acidity.

(Acidity, NCI Dictionary)

Androstane steroid HE3235 appears to bind the androgen receptor (AR), down-regulating anti-apoptotic genes, such as Bcl-2, while increasing the expression of pro-apoptotic genes, such as caspases.

(Androstane Steroid HE3235, NCI Thesaurus)

Synthetic derivatives of the male hormone, androgen, that promote tissue growth by increasing the metabolic processes involved with protein synthesis and are used to promote weight gain in wasting diseases.

(Anabolic steroid, NCI Thesaurus)

The conclusion was scarcely intelligible from increasing fright, for she found that Mr. Crawford, under pretence of receiving the note, was coming towards her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Phosphorylated Nedd4-2 dissociates from ENAC, increasing its apical membrane abundance.

(Aldosterone-Regulated Sodium Reabsorption Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

As the climate warms, vegetation cover is increasing in forests of the northern latitudes.

(Climate change could double greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater ecosystems, University of Cambridge)