Usually means: Small, systematic increases or steps.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. increments: Merriam-Webster
  2. increments: Collins English Dictionary
  3. increments: Vocabulary.com
  4. increments: Wordnik
  5. increments: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. increments: Wiktionary
  7. increments: Dictionary.com
  8. increments: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Increments: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. increments: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Increments: Wordnik

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. increments: Legal dictionary
  2. increments: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. increments: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. increments: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. increments: Medical dictionary

(Note: See increment as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (increment)

noun:  The action of increasing or becoming greater.
noun:  The amount of increase.
noun:  (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."
noun:  (chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
noun:  (grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
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