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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incrementum, from incr?sc? (whence increase), from in- + cr?sc? (“grow”). Equivalent to increase +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k??mn?t/

Noun

increment (plural increments)

1. The action of increasing or becoming greater.
   • 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, especially Minerals, &c

     the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies

   • June 9, 1832 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

     A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

2. (heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
3. The amount of increase.
4. (rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."
5. (chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
6. (grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.

Synonyms

• (action of increasing or becoming greater): enlargement, expansion; See also Thesaurus:augmentation
• (amount of increase): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct

Antonyms

• (amount of increase): decrement; See also Thesaurus:decrement

Derived terms

• incremence (rare)
• incremental

Related terms

• increase

Translations

Verb

increment (third-person singular simple present increments, present participle incrementing, simple past and past participle incremented)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

Usage notes

• Used in many technical fields, especially in mathematics and computing.

Antonyms

• decrement

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin incr?mentum.

Noun

increment m (plural increments)

1. increment, increase

   Synonym: augment

Derived terms

• incremental

Further reading

• “increment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “increment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “increment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “increment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin incrementum

Noun

increment n (plural incrementuri)

1. increment

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: j?mp, IPA^(key): /d??mp/, [d???mp]
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gempan?, *gemban? (“to hop, skip, jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??emb- (“to spring, hop, jump”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Walser dialect kumpu), Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”). Related to jumble.

Verb

jump (third-person singular simple present jumps, present participle jumping, simple past and past participle jumped)

1. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
2. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.

3. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.

4. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
5. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.

6. (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.

7. (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.

8. (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.

9. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.

10. (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).

    Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.
    - From the motion picture The Big Chill.

11. (transitive) To cause to jump.

12. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
13. (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
14. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
15. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
16. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
17. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
18. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
19. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.

20. (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
21. (intransitive, slang, archaic) To flee; to make one's escape.

Synonyms

• (propel oneself upwards): leap, spring
• (cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall): jump down, jump off
• (employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location): skydive
• (react to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body violently): flinch, jerk, jump out of one's skin, leap out of one's skin, twitch
• (move to a position in a queue/line): skip
• (attack suddenly and violently): ambush, assail; see also Thesaurus:attack
• (engage in sexual intercourse): hump, jump someone's bones; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (bore with a jumper): see also Thesaurus:make a hole
• (make one's escape): beat it, rabbit, take off; see also Thesaurus:flee

Derived terms

See also jumped, jamp, jumper and jumping

Related terms

Translations

Noun

jump (plural jumps)

1. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

   • To advance by jumps.

2. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
3. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
4. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
5. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.

6. An object which causes one to jump, a ramp.

7. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.

8. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

9. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
10. A jumping move in a board game.

11. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).

12. (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.

13. (with on) An early start or an advantage.

14. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
15. (hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
16. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
17. (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
18. (US, informal, automotive) Short for jump-start.

19. (film) Clipping of jump cut.
20. (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
    • 1950, Billboard (23 December 1950, page 36)

      Next jump will be at the Chicago Theater, Chicago.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:jump.

Synonyms

• (instance of propelling oneself into the air): leap
• (instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location):
• (instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location):
• (instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body): flinch, jerk, twitch

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

jump (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) exactly; precisely

Synonyms

• accurately, just, slap bang; see also Thesaurus:exactly

Adjective

jump (comparative more jump, superlative most jump)

1. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, An Execration Upon Vulcan

     jump names

Etymology 2

Compare French jupe (“a long petticoat, a skirt”) and English jupon.

Noun

jump (plural jumps)

1. A kind of loose jacket for men.

Related terms

• jumper
• jumps