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in·creas·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. increasingadjective

    becoming greater or larger

    "increasing prices"

  2. increasingadjective

    music

Wikipedia

  1. increasing

    In mathematics, a monotonic function (or monotone function) is a function between ordered sets that preserves or reverses the given order. This concept first arose in calculus, and was later generalized to the more abstract setting of order theory.

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  1. increasing

    Increasing refers to the process or action of becoming larger, greater, higher or more in quantity, intensity, size, value or degree. This growth or rise can be applied to various contexts such as numbers, size, interests, activities, knowledge, etc. It indicates a progressive upward trend or movement.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Increasing

    of Increase

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'increasing' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1852

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'increasing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3311

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'increasing' in Adjectives Frequency: #247

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of increasing in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of increasing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of increasing in a Sentence

  1. David Wright:

    What this means is that only a few large stocks are holding the indexes up, while an increasing number of stocks are actually in a bear market already.

  2. Anil Swarup:

    We keep doing our job in terms of increasing production and productivity and improving quality, our assumption is that once you do that shareholders would be interested.

  3. Park Hyun-suk:

    When Chae Soo-hong first entered the company in 2015, it had about 30 employees. By the time Chae Soo-hong died, the company had grown to 80 employees but Chae Soo-hong duties kept increasing.

  4. New York Andrew Cuomo:

    We have not flattened the curve and the curve is actually increasing.

  5. John Sullivan:

    If you were to relay the math, you would see that that corresponds … in a consistent manner to the rise in violent crime, especially violent gun crime and gun-related crimes in Philadelphia, i'm sure part of that is also related to COVID — increasing gun sales during that period. But that trend continues.

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