As-cēnd'ing, p. a.

p. a. Rising; moving upward. Ascending latitude (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson.—Ascending node (Astron.), that point of a planet's orbit wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the northern node. Herschel.—Ascending series (Math.), a series in which each term is greater than the preceding. Davies & Peck.