Definitions
1.verbTo move upward, to fly, to soar."He ascended to heaven upon a cloud."
2.verbTo slope in an upward direction.
3.verbTo go up."You ascend the stairs and take a right."
4.verbTo succeed."She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated."
5.verbTo rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
6.verbTo trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.)."Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity."
7.verbTo become higher in pitch.
8.nounAn ascent."continual ascendings and descendings"
9.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."
10.adjectiveThat causes a sequence to follow an ascending order."We used an ascending sort."