The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a. Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, 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 series arranged according to the ascending powers of a quantity.
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A series in which each term is greater than the preceding.
Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.
Usage examples of "ascending line".
Then another barrage of missiles must have been launched at the cable, for overhead Ann caught sight of an ascending line of brilliant explosions of light, no sound to them at all.
Hence, when our knowledge is considered as conditioned, reason is constrained to look upon the series of conditions in the ascending line as complete, and given in their totality.
Even so, the microsecond pulses had blasted cup-sized depressions in an ascending line across the face of what had been a blank wall.
Now the foot scratchings were deeper, more frequent, and they followed no direct ascending line.