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  • 1increasing — adj. 1. becoming greater or larger; as, increasing prices. [Narrower terms: {accretionary ; {augmenting, augmentative, building ; {expanding ; {flared, flaring ; {growing ; {incorporative ; {lengthening ; {maximizing ; {multiplicative ; {profit… …

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  • 2increasing — index augmentation, boom (increase) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 3increasing — increase in‧crease 1 [ɪnˈkriːs] verb 1. [intransitive] to become larger in amount, number, or degree: • Manufacturing output increased 0.6% in July. • Sales increased to 11.5 million tons from 11 million tons. increase in • The yen is forecast to …

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  • 4Increasing — Increase In*crease , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Increased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Increasing}.] [OE. incresen, encresen, enrescen, OF. encreistre, fr. L. increscere; pref. in in + crescere to grow. See {Crescent}, and cf. {Decrease}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To… …

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  • 5increasing — increase ► VERB ▪ make or become greater in size, amount, or degree. ► NOUN ▪ an instance or the action of increasing. DERIVATIVES increasing adjective increasingly adverb. ORIGIN Latin increscere, from crescere grow …

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  • 6increasing — adj. Increasing is used with these nouns: ↑acceptance, ↑age, ↑alienation, ↑amount, ↑anxiety, ↑army, ↑autonomy, ↑availability, ↑awareness, ↑clarity, ↑commitment, ↑ …

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  • 7increasing — adjective 1. becoming greater or larger (Freq. 14) increasing prices • Ant: ↑decreasing • Similar to: ↑accelerative, ↑acceleratory, ↑accretionary, ↑ …

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  • 8Increasing Student Achievement — Increasing Student Achievement: What State NAEP Test Scores Tell Us is a RAND study of educational reform in the United States. The League of Education Voters cites the study in support of its Initiative 728, which advocates reducing class size… …

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  • 9Increasing function — Increase In*crease , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Increased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Increasing}.] [OE. incresen, encresen, enrescen, OF. encreistre, fr. L. increscere; pref. in in + crescere to grow. See {Crescent}, and cf. {Decrease}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To… …

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  • 10Increasing process — An increasing process is a stochastic process :(X t) {t in M} where the random variables X t which make up the process are increasing almost surely and adapted::0=X 0 leq X 1 leq cdots . A continuous increasing process is such a process where the …

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