Increase

n.
  1. Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.
  2. That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
  3. Progeny; issue; offspring.
  4. Generation.
  5. (Astron.) The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.
    6. Increase twist ,
    the twixt of a rifle groove in which the angle of twist increases from the breech to the muzzle.