Increment or incremental may refer to: *

Incrementalism :''In politics, the term "incrementalism" is also used as a synonym for Gradualism#Politics and society, Gradualism.'' Incrementalism is a method of working by adding to or subtracting from a project using many small wikt:incremental, incremental ...

, a theory (also used in politics as a synonym for

gradualism Gradualism, from the Latin ("step"), is a hypothesis, a theory or a tenet assuming that change comes about gradually or that variation is gradual in nature and happens over time as opposed to in large steps. Uniformitarianism, incrementalism, and ...

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Increment and decrement operators Increment and decrement operators are unary operators that increase or decrease their operand by one. They are commonly found in imperative programming languages. C-like languages feature two versions (pre- and post-) of each operator with ...

, the operators ++ and -- in computer programming *

Incremental computing Incremental computing, also known as incremental computation, is a software feature which, whenever a piece of data changes, attempts to save time by only recomputing those outputs which depend on the changed data. When incremental computing is su ...

Incremental backup An incremental backup is one in which successive copies of the data contain only the portion that has changed since the preceding backup copy was made. When a full recovery is needed, the restoration process would need the last full backup plus al ...

, which contain only that portion that has changed since the preceding

backup In information technology, a backup, or data backup is a copy of computer data taken and stored elsewhere so that it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form, referring to the process of doing so, is "wikt:back ...

copy. *Increment, chess term for additional time a chess player receives on each move *

Incremental game An incremental game (also known as an idle game, clicker game, or tap game) is a video game genre centered on minimal gameplay, player interaction, where simple actions—such as clicking a button—generate in-game currency. Players use this cur ...

s * Increment in rounding

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