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Enlargement vs. Increment

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Enlargementnoun

An act or instance of making something larger.

‘Rick was ashamed about the size of his penis, so he had a penis enlargement.’;

Incrementnoun

The action of increasing or becoming greater.

Enlargementnoun

(figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.

Incrementnoun

(heraldry) The waxing of the moon.

Enlargementnoun

An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.

Incrementnoun

The amount of increase.

Enlargementnoun

(obsolete) Freedom from confinement; liberty.

Incrementnoun

(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."

Enlargementnoun

Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.

Incrementnoun

(chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.

Enlargementnoun

The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.

Incrementnoun

(grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.

Enlargementnoun

Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.

Incrementverb

To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

Enlargementnoun

A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty.

‘Give enlargement to the swain.’;

Incrementnoun

The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.

‘The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies.’; ‘A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.’;

Enlargementnoun

Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument.

‘An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army.’;

Incrementnoun

Matter added; increase; produce; production; - opposed to decrement.

Enlargementnoun

the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope

Incrementnoun

The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.

Enlargementnoun

a discussion that provides additional information

Incrementnoun

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.’;

Enlargementnoun

a photographic print that has been enlarged

Incrementnoun

a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;

‘the increase in unemployment’; ‘the growth of population’;

Incrementnoun

the amount by which something increases;

‘they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare’;

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