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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. Syria Ramla Khalidi:

    It's an unprecedented crisis in terms of its complexity, year on year the amount of funding has increased and yet we see humanitarian needs also increasing, so I think we need to change the model, reduce humanitarian dependence and focus more funding on early recovery and resilience efforts.

  2. Andres Carbacho-Burgos:

    The industry is still under capacity constraints and suffers from not being able to hire as many workers as it would like, in the next two years, residential construction will also pull back slightly once the Fed finishes increasing short-term rates ... reducing the amount of credit going to real estate development.

  3. Ryan Hammond:

    It really was the vision of Jeffrey Lurie, he has a personal connection to autism and he found that with the prevalence increasing and one in 59 families affected, they need a voice and the voice being the Philadelphia Eagles would really echo around the globe so we launched the Eagles Autism Challenge initially as a fundraising event. ... But this event cant be just one day and we wanted to be authentic to this commitment. We wanted to do more and the sensory room over a year in the making.

  4. Yukiya Amano:

    Yes, (the) production rate is increasing.

  5. Camille Lepre:

    We need to create a more inclusive community. We have embarked on that prior to this incident and are increasing our efforts.

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