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Ascending

//əˈsɛn.dɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence) attributive, not-comparable

    "Please arrange these numbers in an ascending order."

  2. 2
    Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence); That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order. attributive, not-comparable

    "We used an ascending sort."

  3. 3
    Leading or sloping upwards. attributive, not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    moving or going or growing upward wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An ascent. attributive

    "continual ascendings and descendings"

  2. 2
    the act of changing location in an upward direction wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of ascend form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From ascend + -ing.

Etymology 2

From ascend + -ing.

Etymology 3

From ascend + -ing.

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