decrement
One unit less
Decrement is a decrease by a fixed amount, especially by one unit.
The term appears most often in programming and technical contexts, where it contrasts with increment: The loop decrements the counter each iteration.
As a verb, to decrement is to reduce by such a fixed amount.
Outside technical use, the word is rare—decrease or reduction serves better.
Making something smaller
- diminutionReduction in size
- lesseningBecoming reduced in degree
- declineDecrease or refuse
- dropFall or release
dip · fall · lowering · shrinkage · contraction · cutback · rollback · deduction
reduction
Making something smaller
- diminutionReduction in size
- lesseningBecoming reduced in degree
- declineDecrease or refuse
drop · dip · fall · lowering · shrinkage · contraction · cutback · rollback · deduction · markdown
counter
Flat service surface
operator · index · pointer · register · tick · step · cycle · offset · value · parameter
diminish
To make smaller
ebb · recede · atrophy · fade · erode · deplete · attenuate · whittle · phase-out · wind-down
- countingcounting, count, count up, countdown, tally
- sequencesequence, first, second, third, fourth
- math operationsaddition, adding, subtraction, subtracting, multiplication
- quantitiessome, many, few, amount, several
- quantity changesincrease, rise, fall, gain, decline
- computing verbsrun, execute, process, compute, calculate