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: --
It's fair to expect a drastic uptick in perimeter efficiency from this offense, and the same baseline defensive strength.
After reaching a peak of 12.1 in 2007, the rate dropped each subsequent year, reaching 10.4 in 2010 before an uptick to 10.8 in 2011.
Free-to-air satellite had a brief uptick in popularity during the 1980s but never achieved mainstream popularity.
More recently, the magazine has recognized the up-tick in interest in, and expansion of, the grid-tied solar electric systems market for homeowners.
The seventies saw an uptick in the number of houses constructed and spread more to the east.
Quincy sees an uptick in population during concerts.
The uptick rule aimed to prevent short sales from causing or exacerbating market price declines.
In this period, it was quite fashionable to take the waters for almost all illnesses, causing an uptick in business.
