incremental

Pertaining to an increment.

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to an increment.

    Synonyms: gradual

    Antonyms: decremental

  2. Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
    • The replies to questions indicate that the technology provided noncontractually is generally more routine and incremental than that protected by contracts. - 1997, Paul W. Beamish, J. Peter Killing, Cooperative...
    • We perform a full backup on Sunday, including the file foo.dat. On Wednesday, having modified foo.dat, it is stored on an incremental backup. - 2025, Richard Fox, Information Technology: An Introduction for Today's...

Origin

Etymology tree English increment Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English incremental From increment + -al.

Forms

more incremental most incremental

Derived

incremental backup incremental game incrementalism incrementalist incrementalistic incrementality incrementalize incrementally