Ascensional

Quick meaning: Ascensional is an adjective meaning Relating to upward movement; pertaining to the act of rising or ascending.

Meaning

Relating to upward movement; pertaining to the act of rising or ascending.

More Meanings

1. Pertaining to an increase in status or power.
2. Pertaining to an increase in clarity and understanding.
3. Pertaining to progress or improvement.
4. Pertaining to the achievement of a higher spiritual state.
5. (astronomy) Pertaining to right ascension and/or oblique ascension.

Example Sentences

A given quantity of air can be circulated round a mine for the least expenditure of power with ascensional ventilation.

The Neoplatonic scholars had concluded that man's path goes through several stages of knowledge in an ascensional direction.

Yet in the young man's imagination "His Highness the vulture" has clearly regained imperial and ascensional status, radically undoing its original association with death and destruction.

In the latter case, however, it may be considered that the mountain-range produces an effect in bringing the air-masses to the point of saturation, and thus preparing them for the action of the convectional ascensional movement.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reascensional, elevatory, elevational, ageotropic, exaltational, descensional.

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