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Subject:Re: Help: "Increment" as verb From:Richard Mateosian <srm -at- C2 -dot- ORG> Date:Wed, 20 Dec 1995 15:04:23 -0800
>I'm editing one of our manuals and have come across "increment" used as a
>verb. According to my American Heritage Dictionary, it's not a verb.
>However, I'm having a hard time thinking of a replacement. Any
>suggestions? It would be used in a sentence like this: "The software
>package automatically increments the transaction ID number after each
>entry."
This came up about a year ago. I've been using "increment" and "decrement"
as verbs ever since I learned to program the PDP-8 in 1966. I was astonished
to hear that most dictionaries don't consider those words to be verbs.
