ascending

adj, noun — 4 senses

ascending

adj

/əˈsɛn.dɪŋ/

Etymology From ascend + -ing.

1

Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence)

Please arrange these numbers in an ascending order.
Once though the station the deep-throated exhaust of G.C.R. engines, and particularly the "Directors", could be heard in ascending crescendo as the drivers opened out to take the gradient.1954 July, C. R. L. Coles, “Memories of the Great Central”, in Railway Magazine, page 464:

2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.

We used an ascending sort.

3

Leading or sloping upwards.

Antonyms: descending
Derived terms: ascending cervical artery, ascending chain condition, ascending colon, ascendingly, ascending node, ascending palatine artery, ascending pharyngeal artery, ascendostomy, parascending, subascending

ascending

noun

Etymology From ascend + -ing.

1

An ascent.

continual ascendings and descendings

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