ascending
Pronunciation:
/əˈsɛndɪŋ/verb
Definitions
To move upward, to fly, to soar.
Example: He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
To slope in an upward direction.
To go up.
Example: You ascend the stairs and take a right.
To succeed.
Example: She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
noun
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An ascent.
Example: continual ascendings and descendings
adjective
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(of a sequence) Ordered such that each element is greater than or equal to the previous element.
Example: Please arrange these numbers in an ascending order.
Antonyms:descendingThat causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.
Example: We used an ascending sort.
Antonyms:descending