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

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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

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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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