# incremence
## English
### Etymology

Alteration of the noun of action increment to form a noun of quality, on the pattern of incidence.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭnʹkrĭməns, IPA: /ˈɪnkɹɪməns/

### Noun

incremence (uncountable)
* (rare) Incremental growth.
** 1864, T. Irwin, “The Last Sibyl”, in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, volume 64, pages 201–202:An aged earth in ruins, and a new World of barbaric nature in the west Discovered, and in European lands The great mind-harvest growing more and more With ardent incremence. Yet still this earth Is but a crescent sphere, half lit with dawn.
** 1928, Congressional Serial Set, United States Government Printing Office, page 109:This work is being carried on by annual increments of $300000, as part of the five-year program, and as successive incremence of funds become available the construction most urgently needed is undertaken during that year.
** 1969: Egon Diczfalusy (editor), Immunoassay of gonadotrophins: Karolinska Symposia on Research Methods in Reproductive Endocrinology. Transactions of the first Symposium held in Stockholm on September 23–25, 1969, page 358 (Periodica)
    If you give a small glucose load to 30 different people and do not allow for the fact that their basal blood sugars are all different, you may not see a significant rise in the mean blood sugar. Have you corrected your curves and tried to do these plots in terms of incremence and decremence from some starting point?
** 1994, Ronald R. Yager, Lotfi Asker Zadeh, Fuzzy Sets, Neural Networks, and Soft Computing, 2nd edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, page 252, →ISBN:When dealing with values in the unit interval we expect the speed of incremence to slow down the closer we come to maximal belief.
* (rare) Incremental rate.
** 1955: Merger of Naval Supply Activities in the San Pedro-Long Beach Area: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session. September 15, 1955, issue 22, page 105 (United States Government Printing Office)
    The Navy has programed over an incremence of 3 or 4 fiscal years, corrective measures in dikes and walls to protect their investment in this shipyard.
* (rare) Division into increments.
** 1998: Françoise Fogelman-Soulié (editor) and Patrick Gallinari (editor), Industrial Applications of Neural Networks, page 429 (World Scientific; →ISBN, 981023175X)
    The generalized preprocessing perceptron, ¹ as a function from [0, 1] ⁿ to R can be written as y = Φ$^n$$_{i=1φi}$(w$_i$, g$_i$ (x$_i$)) where x$_i$ are the inputs, g$_i$ is in the preprocessing layer, w$_i$ represents the uncertainty for the conclusion from x$_i$ to the output y, φ$_i$ (w$_i$, s$_i$) represents the semantics of implication x$_i$ →$_{wi}$ y, and Φ corresponds to a logical disjunction that calculates an incremence of evidence. Typically, Φ has a greater function, and is an assembly of co-t-norms.

#### Related terms

* increment →
** incremental →
*** incrementalism (chiefly politics)
*** incrementalist (chiefly politics)
** increment borer (forestry)
** increment boring (forestry)
** Method of Increments (mathematics and physics)
* incrementation (obsolete, rare)