"increasing" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ɪnˈkɹiːsɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-increasing.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -iːsɪŋ Etymology: From increase + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|increase|ing}} increase + -ing Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} increasing (not comparable)
  1. on the increase. Tags: not-comparable Hyponyms: ever-increasing Derived forms: increasing function, increasing term assurance, monotonic increasing, non-increasing, strictly increasing, strictly increasing function Translations (on the increase): creixent (Catalan), zunehmend (German), økende (Norwegian Bokmål), crescând (Romanian), creciente (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-increasing-en-adj-uoYyfCwT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ɪnˈkɹiːsɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-increasing.ogg [US] Forms: increasings [plural]
Rhymes: -iːsɪŋ Etymology: From Middle English encresing, equivalent to increase + -ing. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|encresing}} Middle English encresing, {{suffix|en|increase|ing}} increase + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun}} increasing (plural increasings)
  1. (knitting) An increase. Categories (topical): Knitting
    Sense id: en-increasing-en-noun-BdBfBnQj Topics: business, knitting, manufacturing, textiles
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ɪnˈkɹiːsɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-increasing.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -iːsɪŋ Etymology: From increase + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|increase|ing}} increase + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} increasing
  1. present participle and gerund of increase Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: increase
    Sense id: en-increasing-en-verb-Xesv3geO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 10 70 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 27 17 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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