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- not comparablemathematicsIncreasing by equal increments.
A variable regarded as taking on equal increments is an equicrescent variable.
1916, Mansfield Merriman, American Civil Engineers' Pocket Book2 more examples
It is well to notice that t, time, is an equicrescent variable, i.e., grows in equal steps. Thus, although time continually increases, it does so uniformly, so that the differential increment, dt, is constant, although time, t, is itself variable.
1913, Louis Adolphe Martin, Text-book of Mechanics, Volume 2The scale I2 is equicrescent, i. e., its subdivisions subtend equal angular intervals at the pivot point.
1947, John W Wilson, Radiograph calculator, US Patent 2484366
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