Increment vs. Increasement — Which is Correct Spelling?

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Which is correct: Increment or Increasement
How to spell Increment?

Increment
Correct Spelling

Increasement
Incorrect Spelling
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Increment Definitions
The process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent.
Something added or gained
A force swelled by increments from allied armies.
A slight, often barely perceptible augmentation.
One of a series of regular additions or contributions
Accumulating a fund by increments.
(Mathematics) A small positive or negative change in the value of a variable.
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The action of increasing or becoming greater.
(heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
The amount of increase.
(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."
(chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
(grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.
The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.
The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies.
A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
Matter added; increase; produce; production; - opposed to decrement.
The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.
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.
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;
The increase in unemployment
The growth of population
The amount by which something increases;
They proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare
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