The difference between Expansion and Increment
When used as nouns, expansion means the act or process of expanding, whereas increment means the action of increasing or becoming greater.
Increment is also verb with the meaning: to increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
check bellow for the other definitions of Expansion and Increment
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Expansion as a noun:
The act or process of expanding.
Examples:
"The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood."
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Expansion as a noun:
The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
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Expansion as a noun:
A new addition.
Examples:
"My new office is in the expansion behind the main building."
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Expansion as a noun:
A product to be used with a previous product.
Examples:
"This expansion requires the original game board."
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Expansion as a noun:
That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
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Expansion as a noun (steam engines):
The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
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Increment as a noun:
The action of increasing or becoming greater.
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Increment as a noun (heraldry):
The waxing of the moon.
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Increment as a noun:
The amount of increase.
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Increment as a 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."
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Increment as a noun (chess):
The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
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Increment as a noun (grammar):
A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
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Increment as a verb (intransitive, transitive):
To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.