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Ascending
(gcide) | Ascend \As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ascended; p. pr. & vb.
n. Ascending.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb,
mount. See Scan.]
1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to
descend.
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Higher yet that star ascends. --Bowring.
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I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx.
17.
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Note: Formerly used with up.
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The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison.
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2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an
inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects,
from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient
times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our
inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to
our first progenitor.
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Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
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Ascending
(gcide) | Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a.
Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. --
As*cend"ing*ly, adv.
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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) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a
quantity.
(b) A series in which each term is greater than the
preceding.
Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.
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ascending
(wn) | ascending
adj 1: moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane";
"the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of
chickweed" [ant: descending(a)]
n 1: the act of changing location in an upward direction [syn:
rise, ascent, ascension, ascending] |
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Ascending
(gcide) | Ascend \As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ascended; p. pr. & vb.
n. Ascending.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb,
mount. See Scan.]
1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to
descend.
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Higher yet that star ascends. --Bowring.
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I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx.
17.
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Note: Formerly used with up.
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The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison.
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2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an
inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects,
from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient
times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our
inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to
our first progenitor.
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Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
[1913 Webster]Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a.
Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. --
As*cend"ing*ly, adv.
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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) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a
quantity.
(b) A series in which each term is greater than the
preceding.
Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.
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Ascending latitude
(gcide) | Latitude \Lat"i*tude\, n. [F. latitude, L. latitudo, fr. latus
broad, wide, for older stlatus; perh. akin to E. strew.]
1. Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a
given point or line; breadth; width.
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Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above
one third part. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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2. Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence,
looseness; laxity; independence.
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In human actions there are no degrees and precise
natural limits described, but a latitude is
indulged. --Jer. Taylor.
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3. Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.;
extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.
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No discreet man will believe Augustine's miracles,
in the latitude of monkish relations. --Fuller.
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4. Extent; size; amplitude; scope.
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I pretend not to treat of them in their full
latitude. --Locke.
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5. (Geog.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured
on a meridian.
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6. (Astron.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the
ecliptic.
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Ascending latitude, Circle of latitude, {Geographical
latitude}, etc. See under Ascending. Circle, etc.
High latitude, that part of the earth's surface near either
pole, esp. that part within either the arctic or the
antarctic circle.
Low latitude, that part of the earth's surface which is
near the equator.
[1913 Webster]Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a.
Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. --
As*cend"ing*ly, adv.
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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) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a
quantity.
(b) A series in which each term is greater than the
preceding.
Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.
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Ascending line
(gcide) | Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a.
Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. --
As*cend"ing*ly, adv.
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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) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a
quantity.
(b) A series in which each term is greater than the
preceding.
Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.
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Ascending node
(gcide) | Node \Node\ (n[=o]d), n. [L. nodus; perh. akin to E. knot. Cf.
Noose, Nowed.]
1. A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.
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2. Specifically:
(a) (Astron.) One of the two points where the orbit of a
planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the
orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit
of its primary.
(b) (Bot.) The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf
or several leaves are inserted.
(c) (Dialing) A hole in the gnomon of a dial, through
which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of
the day, the parallels of the sun's declination, his
place in the ecliptic, etc.
(d) (Geom.) The point at which a curve crosses itself,
being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and
Acnode.
(e) (Mech.) The point at which the lines of a funicular
machine meet from different angular directions; --
called also knot. --W. R. Johnson.
(f) (Poet.) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
(g) (Med.) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms
upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or
syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the
neighborhood of a joint. --Dunglison.
(h) (Mus) One of the fixed points of a sonorous string,
when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the
harmonic tones; nodal line or point.
(i) (Zool.) A swelling.
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3. (Math., Computers) A special point in a graph or diagram
which is attached to other points by links. It is often
labeled and represented graphically as a box or circle. A
node may represent any object which is related to other
objects in a conceptual structure that can be represented
as a graph, the relations being represented as links
between the nodes.
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4. (Anat.) A small mass of tissue differing from other tissue
in its immediate vicinity; as, a lymph node.
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Ascending node (Astron.), the node at which the body is
passing northerly, marked with the symbol [astascending],
called the Dragon's head. Called also northern node.
Descending node, the node at which the body is moving
southwardly, marked thus [astdescending], called Dragon's
tail.
Line of nodes, a straight line joining the two nodes of an
orbit.
[1913 Webster]Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a.
Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. --
As*cend"ing*ly, adv.
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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) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a
quantity.
(b) A series in which each term is greater than the
preceding.
Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.
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Ascending series
(gcide) | Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a.
Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. --
As*cend"ing*ly, adv.
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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) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a
quantity.
(b) A series in which each term is greater than the
preceding.
Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.
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Ascending signs
(gcide) | Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a.
Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. --
As*cend"ing*ly, adv.
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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) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a
quantity.
(b) A series in which each term is greater than the
preceding.
Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.
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Ascendingly
(gcide) | Ascending \As*cend"ing\, a.
Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. --
As*cend"ing*ly, adv.
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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) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a
quantity.
(b) A series in which each term is greater than the
preceding.
Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.
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Reduction ascending
(gcide) | Reduction \Re*duc"tion\ (r[-e]*d[u^]k"sh[u^]n), n. [F.
r['e]duction, L. reductio. See Reduce.]
1. The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion
to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as,
the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things
to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the
reduction of a rebellious province.
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2. (Arith. & Alg.) The act or process of reducing. See
Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, {To
reduce an expression}, under Reduce, v. t.
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3. (Astron.)
(a) The correction of observations for known errors of
instruments, etc.
(b) The preparation of the facts and measurements of
observations in order to deduce a general result.
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4. The process of making a copy of something, as a figure,
design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the
proper proportions. --Fairholt.
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5. (Logic) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the
so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.
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6. (Chem. & Metal.) The act, process, or result of
reducing[7]; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the
reduction of an aldehyde into an alcohol.
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7. (Med.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or
fractured part to its former place.
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Reduction ascending (Arith.), the operation of changing
numbers of a lower into others of a higher denomination,
as cents to dollars.
Reduction descending (Arith.), the operation of changing
numbers of a higher into others of a lower denomination,
as dollars to cents.
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Syn: Diminution; decrease; abatement; curtailment;
subjugation; conquest; subjection.
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ascending aorta
(wn) | ascending aorta
n 1: the ascending part of the aorta as it emerges from the left
ventricle |
ascending artery
(wn) | ascending artery
n 1: the branch of the ileocolic artery that supplies the
ascending colon [syn: ascending artery, {arteria
ascendens}] |
ascending colon
(wn) | ascending colon
n 1: the part of the large intestine that ascends from the cecum
to the transverse colon |
ascending node
(wn) | ascending node
n 1: the point at which an orbit crosses the ecliptic plane
going north [ant: descending node] |
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