Meaning of ascending in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• 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.

• To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.

• To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).

  Example: Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

• To become higher in pitch.

noun

• An ascent.

  Example: continual ascendings and descendings

adjective

• (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.

• That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.

  Example: We used an ascending sort.