increase meaning
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[ɪnˈkɹiːs] [ˈɪnkɹiːs] [-iːs] 
US US WIncrease
- Increase may refer to:
- Increase (knitting)
- Increase, Mississippi
- A raise in goods, including:
- Inflation, economic term for price increase
- NounPLincreasesSUF-ase
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- VerbSGincreasesPRincreasingPT, PPincreased
- VI (of a quantity) To become larger.
- VT To make (a quantity) larger.
- The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (astronomy) VI To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- The Moon increases.
- VI (of a quantity) To become larger.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In infected placentas from patients with IUGR, significant increase in the number of large fibrinoids with avascular villi, edema, and inflammation were observed [7 ].
- These blood-pool contrast agents theoretically lead to enhancement restricted to structures with an increased microvascularization and are not retained in the fibrous tissue [19 ].
- "We’ve also tossed around increasing the gate admission from $5 to $7 or $8, but we really want to avoid impacting the fairgoer, so we’re keeping admission at $5," Jensen said.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Increases in the proportion of early breast cancer patients and the wide adoption of oncoplastic surgery and neoadjuvant chemotherapy may have contributed to these observed changes in surgical trends.
- Increasing prices and frozen wages add up to hardship for the poorer families.
- Increased 1,25(OH) 2 D levels should stimulate the intestinal hyperabsorption of Ca and contribute to the hypercalciuria observed in such patients.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Large swathes will be affected by the tax increase.
- Previous reports on unilateral LR recession commonly show extremely low rates of initial overcorrection and large exodrifts after surgery suggesting that the surgical dose may be increased.
- Farronato et al. [ 16 ] concluded that the effect of occlusion in dyslalias seems to increase proportionally as the severity of the malocclusion increases.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of increase in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Ergative verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Ergative verbs
- Nouns
- en increased
- en increases
- en increaser
- en increasest
- en increaseth
Source: Wiktionary
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Grammatically, this word "increase" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an ergative verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.