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ascending
/əˈsɛndɪŋ/
verb
To move upward, to fly, to soar.
"He ascended to heaven upon a cloud."
To slope in an upward direction.
To go up.
"You ascend the stairs and take a right."
Antonymsdescend
noun
An ascent.
"continual ascendings and descendings"
adjective
(of a sequence) Ordered such that each element is greater than or equal to the previous element.
"Please arrange these numbers in an ascending order."
That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.
"We used an ascending sort."
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