Increment vs. Increasement — Which is Correct Spelling?

The process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent.

Something added or gained

A slight, often barely perceptible augmentation.

One of a series of regular additions or contributions

(Mathematics) A small positive or negative change in the value of a variable.

The action of increasing or becoming greater.

(heraldry) The waxing of the moon.

The amount of increase.

(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."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage:

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

The amount by which something increases;