incremence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnʹkrĭməns
ipa: /ˈɪnkɹɪməns/
Etymology: Alteration of the noun of action increment to form a noun of quality, on the pattern of incidence.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1864, T. Irwin, “The Last Sibyl”, in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, volume 64, pages 201–202:
text: 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.
ref: 1928, Congressional Serial Set, United States Government Printing Office, page 109:
text: 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?
ref: 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)
text: When dealing with values in the unit interval we expect the speed of incremence to slow down the closer we come to maximal belief.
ref: 1994, Ronald R. Yager, Lotfi Asker Zadeh, Fuzzy Sets, Neural Networks, and Soft Computing, 2nd edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, page 252, →ISBN:
glosses: Incremental growth.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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)
glosses: Incremental rate.
examples: text: The generalized preprocessing perceptron, ¹ as a function from [0, 1] ⁿ to R can be written as y = Φⁿᵢ₌₁ᵩᵢ(wᵢ, gᵢ (xᵢ)) where xᵢ are the inputs, gᵢ is in the preprocessing layer, wᵢ represents the uncertainty for the conclusion from xᵢ to the output y, φᵢ (wᵢ, sᵢ) represents the semantics of implication xᵢ →_(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.
ref: 1998: Françoise Fogelman-Soulié (editor) and Patrick Gallinari (editor), Industrial Applications of Neural Networks, page 429 (World Scientific; →ISBN, 981023175X)
glosses: Division into increments.
Related terms: topics: politics
government
word: incrementalism
topics: politics
government
word: incrementalist
word: incremental →
topics: forestry
business
word: increment borer
topics: forestry
business
word: increment boring
topics: physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
mathematics
sciences
word: Method of Increments
word: increment →
word: incrementation