0 an increase in something:
uptick in sth We can see some uptick in activity in the marketplace.
1 a price or offer on a share that is higher than the previous price at which the share was sold:
Conservative radio hosts were seeing an uptick in listener numbers and advertising in the lead-up to the year's midterm elections.
Precipitation, both in frequency and total accumulation, shows a marked uptick in late spring and summer.
However, the property crime rate returned to the downward trend begun in the 1990s, after a slight uptick in the previous two years.
In addition, the city has seen a major uptick in immigration in recent decades.
The genes which control this resistance are currently being mapped and implementation efficiency should see uptick in coming years.
The level of glacial runoff is also on the uptick since the 1950s.
However, this uptick was not to last: coal traffic along the line ended in 1951, and by 1963 there were no longer any freight workings.
In this period, it was quite fashionable to take the waters for almost all illnesses, causing an uptick in business.
