incrementally

comparative more incrementally · superlative most incrementally

1. In an incremental fashion; by small changes.

   Performance is improving incrementally, depot by depot and diagram by diagram.

   2026 February 18, Will Rogers talks to Richard Wilcock, “The RAIL Interview”, in RAIL, number 1055, page 47

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   The probability density of the Bayesian posterior was estimated by Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo, with multiple incrementally heated chains.

   2004 July 27, F. Keith Barker et al., “Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation”, in PNAS, page 11040, column 2

   Synonyms: little by little, gradually, additively, bit by bit, footmeal, one at a time, one by one, one step at a time