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INCREASING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Becoming greater or larger
Example:
increasing prices
Classified under:
Similar:
accelerative; acceleratory (tending to increase velocity)
accretionary (marked or produced by accretion)
accretive (growing by accretion)
augmentative (increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree)
incorporative (growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories)
maximising; maximizing (making as great as possible)
multiplicative (tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree)
profit-maximising; profit-maximizing (making the profit as great as possible)
progressive (gradually advancing in extent)
raising (increasing in quantity or value)
Antonym:
decreasing (becoming less or smaller)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(music) increasing in tempo and/or volume
Classified under:
Similar:
accelerando ((music) gradually increasing in tempo)
crescendo ((music) gradually increasing in volume)
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Antonym:
decreasing ((music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb increase
Context examples:
She stopped and a shudder ran through her, increasing in intensity for a few seconds, till, at the end, she shook as though in a palsy.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He wanted to be in two places at the same time, with the old master and the new, and steadily the distance between them was increasing.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Thanks to new research, that could soon change — good news for a world in which rains are increasing in both frequency and intensity.
(Grains in the rain, National Science Foundation)
Mars, your ruling planet, is found in Scorpio, your eighth house, increasing your spending.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The flies, however, who understood no German, would not be turned away, but came back again in ever-increasing companies.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
All night I steered, without relief, the wind slowly and steadily increasing and the sea rising.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“We look forward to increasing the size of our planet sample in future studies,” said Madhusudhan.
(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)
Upon administration of CDX-1127, this MoAb binds to CD27 and may potentiate the immune response by increasing the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response against CD27-expressing tumor cells.
(Anti-CD27 Monoclonal Antibody CDX-1127, NCI Thesaurus)
“A great and increasing one,” replied the other, in a low voice.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Cell Differentiation Inhibition involves interference or restraint of progressive and normally irreversible processes whereby restriction of the developmental potential of immature precursor cells results in increasing specialization of cell function and morphology.
(Negative Regulation of Cell Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus)
