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English Dictionary: ascending	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ascending adj moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed" Antonym(s): descending(a) n the act of changing location in an upward direction [syn: rise, ascent, ascension, ascending]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ascend \As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ascended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ascending}.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb, mount. See {Scan}.] 1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to {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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ascending \Ascend"ing\, a. Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending* kite. -- {Ascend"ingly}, 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.