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ascending

verb
/əˈsɛn.dɪŋ/

Etymology

From ascend + -ing.

  1. derived from ascendō
  2. derived from ascendre
  3. inherited from ascenden
  4. formed as ascending — “ascend + -ing”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of ascend

  2. 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.

  3. Leading or sloping upwards.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An ascent.

      • continual ascendings and descendings

The neighborhood

Derived

ascending cervical artery, ascending chain condition, ascending colon, ascendingly, ascending node, ascending palatine artery, ascending pharyngeal artery, ascendostomy, parascending, subascending

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ascending. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01ascending02rising03rise04relative05relation06tone07scale

A definitional loop anchored at ascending. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at ascending

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA