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ASCENDING
ascending
(adjective) moving or going or growing upward; “the ascending plane”; “the ascending staircase”; “the ascending stems of chickweed”
rise, ascent, ascension, ascending
(noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
ascending
Present participle and gerund of ascend.
Adjective
ascending (not comparable)
(of a sequence) Ordered such that each element is greater than or equal to the previous element.
Antonym: descending
(computing) That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.
Antonym: descending
Noun
ascending (plural ascendings)
An ascent.
continual ascendings and descendings
Source: Wiktionary
As*cend"ing, a.
Definition: Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite.
– As*cend"ing*ly, adv. Ascending latitude (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson.
– Ascending line (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending.
– Ascending node having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the northern node. Herschel.
– Ascending series. (Math.) (a) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a quantity. (b) A series in which each term is greater than the preceding.
– Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.
ASCEND
As*cend", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ascended; p. pr. & vb. n. Ascending.] Etym: [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb, mount. See Scan.]
1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to Ant: descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17.
Note: Formerly used with up. The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. Addison.
2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.
Syn.
– To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
As*cend", v. t.
Definition: To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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