ascending
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /əˈsɛndɪŋ/
Verb
  1. Present participle and gerund of ascend#English|ascend.
Adjective

ascending (not comparable)

  1. (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.
    Antonyms: descending
  2. (computing) That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.
    We used an ascending sort.
    Antonyms: descending
Translations Translations Noun

ascending (plural ascendings)

  1. An ascent.
    continual ascendings and descendings



This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Offline English dictionary