ascending : Idioms & Phrases

• (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson.

Webster 1913

• (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.

Webster 1913

• noun the point at which an orbit crosses the ecliptic plane going north
  

WordNet

• 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.

Webster 1913

• . (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.

Webster 1913

• signs east of the meridian.

Webster 1913