Meanings
comparative more incremental · superlative most incremental
- Pertaining to an increment.
Synonyms: gradual · Antonyms: decremental
- Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
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 Digital World, page 4371 more example
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 Strategies: Asian Pacific perspectives, page 202
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveincreasing gradually by regular degrees or additions
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishincrement
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishincremental
Translations
Catalan incremental
- incrementalpertaining to an increment
Czech inkrementální
- inkrementálníoccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
Danish gradvis, trinvis
- gradvisoccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- trinvisoccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- inkrementeloccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
Finnish kasvu-, lisä-
- kasvu-pertaining to an increment
- lisä-pertaining to an increment
- inkrementaalinenpertaining to an increment
German inkremental, stufenweise
- inkrementalpertaining to an increment
- stufenweiseoccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- schrittweiseoccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- inkrementelloccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- zunehmendoccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- graduelloccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- stadialoccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- inkrementaloccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- Zuwachs-occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
Indonesian inkremental, inkremental
- inkrementalpertaining to an increment
- inkrementaloccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
Russian инкреме́нтный, инкремента́льный
- инкреме́нтный (inkreméntnyj)pertaining to an increment
- инкремента́льный (inkrementálʹnyj)pertaining to an increment
- инкреме́нтный (inkreméntnyj)occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- инкремента́льный (inkrementálʹnyj)occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- поша́говый (pošágovyj)occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
Swedish gradvis, stegvis
- gradvisoccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- stegvisoccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
- inkrementelloccurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps
Ukrainian інкрементний
- інкрементний (inkrementnyj)pertaining to an increment
Cite this entry
incremental. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incremental
“incremental.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incremental. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “incremental,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incremental.
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