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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. Nick Beighton:

    We will be increasing investment in price and marketing in the second half, particularly in France and Germany, given the actions we are taking together with an improving U.S. performance, we believe the group will deliver stronger growth in the second half.

  2. Moncef Slaoui:

    Any accretion in value of everything I own that has anything to do with Covid, which is my GlaxoSmithKline shares, any accretion in value by the end of my mission will look -- if there has been increasing value with it -- I'll sell those shares, and I'll give that incremental value to the NIH for research.

  3. Auckland Airport:

    We have continued to see growth right across our business, which has been underpinned by new routes, new airlines and increasing passenger numbers.

  4. Joe Biden:

    We shouldn’t be cutting funding for police departments, i propose increasing funding. Look, you know, we ask cops to do everything, including be psychologists and social workers. Guess what? They need psychologists and social workers. I mean it. Not a joke.

  5. Dan Coats:

    As China and Russia seek to expand their global influence, they are eroding once well-established security norms and increasing the risk of regional conflicts, particularly in the Middle East and East Asia.

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