- that ascends
- Bot. rising or curving upward from a trailing position, as the stems of certain vines and shrubs
adjective
The definition of ascending is something that is going up.
An escalator that takes you to a higher floor is an example of an ascending escalator.
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ascending
adjective
- Moving, going, or growing upward: an ascending minor scale.
- Moving or progressing toward a higher level or degree: an ascending order of difficulty.
- Botany Growing or directing upward from a curved or slanted base, as certain plant stems.
Related Forms:
- as·cend′ing·ly
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Verb
- Present participle of ascend.
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Sentence Examples
- Rather than join them, she paced the hall before following it to its end and ascending to the roof.
- The soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and despite the general's presence were talking loudly and gesticulating.
- In all these cases it is a nice question whether we are tracing an ascending or descending stream.
- Divided into three or four stopes at varying heights above the main level, the lowest being known as the cutting-out stope, the others as the first and second back stopes in ascending order.
- In the ascending stream may be mentionedLarrea, a small genus of Zygophylleae with headquarters in Paraguay and Chile, of which one species, L.
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