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 series".
I watched two women in robes run up through the ascending series of temple buildings, hanging bridges, stairways, steep ladders, and penultimate construction scaffolding to the easternmost platform where the work seemed to consist of cutting holes in the rock wall.
The impressive three-story space was composed of an ascending series of flying-carpet-like platforms each occupied by three or four boomerang-shaped tables with semicircular banquettes facing onto a dance floor that had been laseretched to resemble a vast Persian rug.
The inference of a first cause, based on the impossibility of an infinite ascending series of given causes in this world of sense,—.
Beyond that, he had an ascending series of goals with an ascending level of improbability.
The rules were hierarchical, each subject to others in an ascending series, producing dizzying problems of strategy.