Incremental is used to describe something that increases in value or worth, often by a regular amount. our ability to add production capacity at relatively low incremental cost
a property of a development process whereby units of work are repeated to produce additional new work products or capabilities of work products Development cycles are typically incremental because applications are too large and complex to be built all at once in a big bang fashion Contrast with iterative
refers to an output that is measured in known increments from a known reference point; e g , a step motor provides incremental motion based on an initial position and an incremental encoder provides incremental feedback information based on a known zero point