Anything that escalates.
An escalator clause.
A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
An upward or progressive course.
The action of increasing or becoming greater.
The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
The amount of increase.
The waxing of the moon.
An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."
A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.