inch

n 1: a unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one

twelfth of a foot [syn: {in}]

2: a unit of measurement for advertising space [syn: {column

inch}]

v : advance slowly, as if by inches [syn: {edge}]

inc

/ink/ increment, i.e. increase by one. Especially used by

{assembly} programmers, as many assembly languages have an

"inc" {mnemonic}.

Antonym: {dec}.

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