Sometime billions of years in the future, he predicts, the core and mantle could cool and solidify enough to meet the crust. If that happens, Earth will become a cold, dead planet like the moon. Long before such an occurrence, however, the Sun will likely have evolved into a red-giant star, and grown large enough to engulf our fair planet.
The term increment is occasionally used in physics and engineering to represent a small change in a parameter such as temperature, electric current, visible light intensity, or time. Also see Mathematical Symbols.
1. a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important. 2. the amount by which something increases. Familiarity information: INCREMENT used as a noun is rare.ypernyms (increment is a kind of...): amount (how much of something is available). Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of increment): amplification; gain (the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input).