Synonyms of the word

increment

• n. The action of increasing or becoming greater.
• n. (heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
• n. The amount of increase.
• n. (rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever…
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

amount

• n. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard…
• n. A quantity or volume.
• n. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
• v. (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
• v. (intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.

growth

• n. An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
• n. (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
• n. (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
• n. (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

increase

• v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
• v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
• v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
• n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
• n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

process

• n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
• n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
• n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
• n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
• n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
• n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
• n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
• n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
• v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
• v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
• v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
• v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.