incrementとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋkɹɪmn̩t/

名詞

increment (複数形 increments)

1. The action of increasing or becoming greater.
   • 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, especially Minerals, &c

     the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies

   • June 9, 1832 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

     A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

2. (heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
3. The amount of increase.
   • 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 90:

     The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments.

4. (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."
5. (chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
6. (grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.

同意語

• (action of increasing または becoming greater): enlargement, expansion; See also Thesaurus:augmentation
• (amount of increase): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct

反意語

• (amount of increase): decrement; See also Thesaurus:decrement

派生語

• incremence (まれに)
• incremental

関連する語

• increase

動詞

increment (三人称単数 現在形 increments, 現在分詞 incrementing, 過去形および過去分詞形 incremented)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
   • 1890, H. E. J. G. Du Bois, “On Magnetic Circuits”, in Philosophical magazine, page 346:

     ... any given value just before observing, the actual pressures must as frequently be incremented as decremented, both in the "on" and the "off" series.

   • 2007 January 23, “Busiest two weeks for recruiters”, in Recruiter Magazine:

     public sector professional services recruitment, has seen a strong seasonal upturn which has incremented year on year since 2002 by an average of 12%.

   • 1984, Brian W. Kernighan; Rob Pike, The UNIX programming environment, page 124:

     The first for loop looks at each word in the input line, incrementing the element of array num subscripted by the word.

使用する際の注意点

• Used in many technical fields, especially in mathematics and computing.

反意語

• decrement