Decrement vs. Growth — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Decrement and Growth
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Definitions
Decrement
The act or process of decreasing or becoming gradually less.
Growth
The process of growing.
Decrement
The amount lost by gradual diminution or waste.
Growth
Full development; maturity.
Decrement
(Mathematics) The amount by which a variable is decreased; a negative increment.
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Growth
Development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form; evolution.
Decrement
A small quantity removed or lost. One of a series of regular subtractions.
Growth
An increase, as in size, number, value, or strength; extension or expansion
Population growth.
Decrement
To decrease a value by a basic quantity unit.
Growth
Something that grows or has grown
A new growth of grass.
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Decrement
The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
Twit me with the decrements of my pendants.
Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement.
Growth
An abnormal mass of tissue, such as a tumor, growing in or on a living organism.
Decrement
The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; - opposed to increment.
Growth
A result of growth; a product
Concerns that are a growth of the new responsibilities.
Decrement
A name given by Haüy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.
Growth
Expected to have or investing in businesses expected to have higher-than-average increases in revenues and returns
A growth stock.
A growth fund.
Decrement
The quantity by which a variable is diminished.
Growth
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
Decrement
The amount by which something decreases
Growth
(economics) economic growth
Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
Decrement
A process of becoming smaller or shorter
Growth
An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
Struggle, disappointment, and criticism all contribute to a person's growth.
Growth
(biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
Growth
(biology) Something that grows or has grown.
Growth
(pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
Growth
The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.
Growth
That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
Nature multiplies her fertile growth.
Growth
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level;
He proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
Growth
A progression from simpler to more complex forms;
The growth of culture
Growth
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;
The increase in unemployment
The growth of population
Growth
Vegetation that has grown;
A growth of trees
The only growth was some salt grass
Growth
The gradual beginning or coming forth;
Figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
Growth
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
Growth
Something grown or growing;
A growth of hair
