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Vinony

incremental

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English increment Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English incremental From increment + -al.

  1. Pertaining to an increment.
  2. Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.

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

    “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.”