Increment
Part of Math Symbols
Increment has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ∆
- Unicode
- U+2206
About this symbol
∆ is the increment sign, for a change in a quantity, as in ∆T for a change in temperature. It looks like the Greek capital delta Δ, and Unicode keeps both so that maths and Greek text can be told apart.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- INCREMENT
- Also called
- Laplace operator, Forward difference, Symmetric difference (in set theory)
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Miscellaneous mathematical symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Other symbols may also be used for symmetric difference
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