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adjective
- 1. becoming greater in size, amount, or degree; growing: "the increasing numbers of students"
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The meaning of INCREASE is to become progressively greater (as in size, amount, number, or intensity). How to use increase in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Increase.
Learn the meaning of increase as a verb and a noun, and see how to use it in different contexts. Find synonyms, antonyms, and related words for increase in the Cambridge Dictionary.
Increasing means becoming greater or larger, or making something greater or larger. Find out the synonyms, pronunciation, and translations of increasing in English and other languages.
(ɪnˈkrisɪŋ) adjective. 1. growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting. 2. Math (of a function) having the property that for any two points in the domain such that one is larger than the other, the image of the larger point is greater than or equal to the image of the smaller point; nondecreasing. Compare decreasing (sense 2)
Increasing means getting bigger or expanding. You'll be glad to have an increasing income, but perhaps less glad to have an increasing pants size.
Increase is a verb meaning to make or become greater in size, number, or quality, or a noun meaning the act or result of increasing. Learn more about its origin, usage, and related words.
uk / ɪnˈkriːs / us / ɪnˈkriːs /. B1. to (make something) become larger in amount or size: Incidents of armed robbery have increased over the last few years. The cost of the project has increased dramatically / significantly since it began. Gradually increase the temperature to boiling point.
