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Arcuation
- - The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.
Ascaridae
- noun - large roundworms parasitic in intestines of vertebrates
Ascaridia
- noun - roundworm having a preanal sucker
Ascendant
- adjective - most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
- position or state of being dominant or in control; "that idea was in the ascendant"
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
- The ascendant or rising sign is the astrological sign on the eastern horizon when the person was born. It signifies a person's physical appearance
Ascendent
- adjective - most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
- position or state of being dominant or in control; "that idea was in the ascendant"
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
Ascenders
- noun - (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters
- a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters
- An ascender is a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope.
- someone who ascends
Ascending
- verb - appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house"
- become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
- come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
- go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
- go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
- move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
- moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed"
- slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- to climb
- travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
Ascension
- noun - (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon
- (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter
- (New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection
- a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
Ascensive
- adjective - tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
Ascertain
- verb -
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something;
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
- learn or discover with certainty