incremental
adjEtymology From increment + -al.
1
Pertaining to an increment.
2
Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
- The replies to questions indicate that the technology provided noncontractually is generally more routine and incremental than that protected by contracts.1997, Paul W. Beamish, J. Peter Killing, Cooperative Strategies: Asian Pacific perspectives, page 202:
- We perform a full backup on Sunday, including the file foo.dat. On Wednesday, having modified foo.dat, it is stored on an incremental backup.2025, Richard Fox, Information Technology: An Introduction for Today's Digital World, page 437: