INCREMENTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incremental mean? 

• INCREMENTAL (adjective)
  The adjective INCREMENTAL has 1 sense:

1. increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions

  Familiarity information: INCREMENTAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCREMENTAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions

Context example:

lecturers enjoy...steady incremental growth in salary

Similar:

additive (characterized or produced by addition)

Derivation:

increment (the amount by which something increases)

increment (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important)

 Context examples 

A pliable length of fabric, plastic, paper or some composite that is has incremental lengths imprinted on the surface.

(Measuring Tape, NCI Thesaurus)

IPI effectively maintains a database of cross references between the primary data sources, provides minimally redundant yet maximally complete sets of proteins for featured species (one sequence per transcript), and maintains stable identifiers (with incremental versioning) to allow the tracking of sequences in IPI between IPI releases.

(International Protein Index, NCI Thesaurus)