incrementar

Incrementar is a verb used in Spanish and Portuguese with the core meaning of making something larger or greater. In both languages it conveys the action of increasing magnitude, quantity, degree, or intensity. The related noun forms are incremento in Spanish and incremento in Portuguese, often used to refer to the result of the action or to the process of increasing.

Etymology and usage. The term derives from Latin incrementum, meaning an increase or growth. In everyday language, incrementar can describe rising prices, higher temperatures, larger budgets, or higher scores. It is commonly employed in business, economics, science, and public discourse to express growth or augmentation.

In Spanish, incrementar is widely used with direct objects: incrementar ventas, incrementar la producción, incrementar la inversión. In Portuguese, the usage parallels the Spanish, with phrases such as incrementar as vendas or incrementar a produção. The noun increment, or incremento, is frequently used to name the amount by which something increases or the act of increasing.

Computing and mathematics. In programming and math, incrementar denotes increasing the value of a variable or parameter. The concept is often associated with the increment operation, which in many languages adds a fixed amount (typically one) to a variable, sometimes implemented via an increment operator such as ++ in several programming languages. In Spanish-language technical writing, the noun incremento is common for the resulting value.

See also: incremento, aumento, crecimiento, crecimiento económico.