adjective. Moving, going, or growing upward.

adjective. Moving or progressing toward a higher level or degree.

adjective. Growing or directing upward from a curved or slanted base, as certain plant stems.

Proceeding from a lower position to a higher; rising; moving upward; figuratively, proceeding from the less to the greater; proceeding from a later to an earlier time; rising from grave to acute.

In botany, growing upward, as the stem of a plant, which is called the ascending axis.

adjective. Rising; moving upward.

adjective. the increasing latitude of a planet.

adjective. 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.

adjective. having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the northern node.

adjective. A series in which each term is greater than the preceding.

adjective. signs east of the meridian.

verb. Present participle of ascend.

noun. the act of changing location in an upward direction

adjective. moving or going or growing upward

"On the table a column of steam was ascending from the big mixing-pan."

acute ascending paralysis  ascending latitude  ascending letter  ascending node  ascending ovule  

acclivitous  ascendant  ascendent  ascensive  assurgent  

amending  apprehending  attending  befriending  bending  

Olympian  acclinate  acclivitous  aerial  airy  

ascend