increasing
On the increase.
Adjective
- On the increase.
- steadily increasing demand
- The world’s environmental crises are an increasing concern in international politics. Deforestation of the Amazon was high on the agenda of this week’s G7 meeting in Biarritz, France. In September, world leaders will...
Origin
Etymology tree English increase Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ynge English -ing English increasing From increase + -ing (participial suffix).
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Derived
increasing function increasingly increasing term assurance monotonic increasing non-increasing nonincreasing strictly increasing strictly increasing function superincreasing unincreasing
Noun
- An increase.
- Now begin the increasings for the chest by making 2 stitches in the fourth stitch; repeat this, increasing in every fourth row, but 1 stitch further each time, so as to form a slanting line, the same as a dress-pleat. -...
Origin
From Middle English encresing, equivalent to increase + -ing (gerund suffix).
Forms
Verb
- present participle and gerund of increase
- Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on...
- It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most...