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Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
incremental
in‧cre‧men‧tal/ˌɪŋkrəˈmentl◂, ˌɪŋkrɪˈmentl◂/ adjective formal 1. [USUALLY BEFORE NOUN] increasing in amount or value gradually and by a regular amount: ▪ incremental pay scales
2. happening gradually over time: ▪ Mr Kennedy said that progress on reforms would be incremental. ▪ a process of incremental change
—incrementally adverb: ▪ You need to make changes in your diet incrementally.
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES incremental backup COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS NOUN approach ▪ The incremental approach is often appropriate for any child with considerable learning difficulties. ▪ In the incremental approach, choices are typically marginal changes from existing policies. ▪ The initial distribution between capitation and other expenditure followed an incremental approach as it was based on previous patterns of expenditure. ▪ There is an incremental approach to the budgetary process. 3. ▪ But as long as this incremental approach remains half-hearted, wholesale abandonment of parts of the city begins to make grim sense. change ▪ Hiser suggested making incremental changes in cooking, eating and exercising. ▪ A disposition to incremental change can deflect one from considering or even comprehending wider and more fundamental problems. ▪ But incremental changes for women, important as they are to individuals, are not structural changes. ▪ However, we have a first-class record of incremental change. ▪ Behe contends that evolutionists never try to explain how complex systems might have arisen through incremental changes. ▪ Unlike Big Ideas that beget standardized commodities, these products undergo a continuous process of incremental change and adaptation. ▪ True mastery of design and development in multimedia demands more than an incremental change in existing established skills. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A marginal tax rate is the tax paid on additional or incremental income. ▪ At best the ads would attract a very small incremental audience to the network. ▪ Behe contends that evolutionists never try to explain how complex systems might have arisen through incremental changes. ▪ In descriptive terms the argument is that decision-making is always incremental. ▪ Since the incremental value is encoded in the operation field, there is room to specify a store address in the instruction. ▪ The training promises to provide empirical evidence of incremental improvements in staff effectiveness.
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