Growth vs. Increment — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Growth and Increment
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Growth
The process of growing.
Increment
The process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent.
Growth
Full development; maturity.
Increment
Something added or gained
A force swelled by increments from allied armies.
Growth
Development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form; evolution.
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Increment
A slight, often barely perceptible augmentation.
Growth
An increase, as in size, number, value, or strength; extension or expansion
Population growth.
Increment
One of a series of regular additions or contributions
Accumulating a fund by increments.
Growth
Something that grows or has grown
A new growth of grass.
Increment
(Mathematics) A small positive or negative change in the value of a variable.
Growth
An abnormal mass of tissue, such as a tumor, growing in or on a living organism.
Increment
The action of increasing or becoming greater.
Growth
A result of growth; a product
Concerns that are a growth of the new responsibilities.
Increment
(heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
Growth
Expected to have or investing in businesses expected to have higher-than-average increases in revenues and returns
A growth stock.
A growth fund.
Increment
The amount of increase.
Growth
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
Increment
(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."
Growth
(economics) economic growth
Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
Increment
(chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
Growth
An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
Struggle, disappointment, and criticism all contribute to a person's growth.
Increment
(grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
Growth
(biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
Increment
To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
Growth
(biology) Something that grows or has grown.
Increment
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.
Growth
(pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
Increment
Matter added; increase; produce; production; - opposed to decrement.
Growth
The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.
Increment
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.
Growth
That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
Nature multiplies her fertile growth.
Increment
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.
Growth
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level;
He proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
Increment
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;
The increase in unemployment
The growth of population
Growth
A progression from simpler to more complex forms;
The growth of culture
Increment
The amount by which something increases;
They proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare
Growth
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;
The increase in unemployment
The growth of population
Growth
Vegetation that has grown;
A growth of trees
The only growth was some salt grass
Growth
The gradual beginning or coming forth;
Figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
Growth
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
Growth
Something grown or growing;
A growth of hair
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