incremental

From increment + -al.

incremental (comparative more incremental, superlative most incremental)

1. Pertaining to an increment.

   Synonym: gradual

   Antonym: decremental

2. Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
   • 1997, Paul W. Beamish, J. Peter Killing, Cooperative Strategies: Asian Pacific perspectives, page 202:

     The replies to questions indicate that the technology provided noncontractually is generally more routine and incremental than that protected by contracts.

   • 2025, Richard Fox, Information Technology: An Introduction for Today's Digital World, page 437:

     We perform a full backup on Sunday, including the file foo.dat. On Wednesday, having modified foo.dat, it is stored on an incremental backup.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [iŋ.kɾə.mənˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iŋ.kɾe.menˈtal]

incremental m or f (masculine and feminine plural incrementals)

1. incremental

• increment

• “incremental”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “incremental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “incremental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “incremental”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From increment +‎ -al.

incremental m or n (feminine singular incrementală, masculine plural incrementali, feminine/neuter plural incrementale)

1. incremental

From incremento +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /inkɾemenˈtal/ [ĩŋ.kɾe.mẽn̪ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: in‧cre‧men‧tal

incremental m or f (masculine and feminine plural incrementales)

1. incremental