Increment (Noun)- the action or process of increasing especially in quantity or value

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/increment

“The Statue of Liberty has never made me feel at home, either in New York Harbor or on Las Vegas Boulevard, where it stood squat and compressed as I drove past, a facsimile in incremental scale.” – Walk With Me

My understanding of the word as it was used in the sentence is that the Statue of Liberty was being view based on a large scaling because it looks very good to be a duplicate of the real one that stands in NYC.

Growth from smallest to largest