ascending

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of ascend

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

   Please arrange these numbers in an ascending order.

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   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

   1. attributivenot comparablecomputingThat causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.

      We used an ascending sort.

2. attributivenot comparableLeading or sloping upwards.

   Synonyms: ascendant

plural ascendings

1. attributiveAn ascent.

   continual ascendings and descendings