ascensional

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “The ascensional power of this balloon was very great, and being set loose in Paris, it rose with great rapidity, and at the end of four minutes had reached a height of nearly a thousand yards, when it was lost sight of by entering a cloud.”

2. sıfat Pertaining to an increase in status or power.

   “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.”

3. sıfat Pertaining to an increase in clarity and understanding.

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

4. sıfat Pertaining to progress or improvement.

   “To begin with, both models see social change as evolutionary and as an 'ascensional spiral towards progress.'”

5. sıfat Pertaining to the achievement of a higher spiritual state.

   “We may place in the second rank those who have reached the middle of the ascensional ladder, those who have achieved the degree of purification in which aspiration after perfection has become the ruling desire.”

6. sıfat Pertaining to right ascension and/or oblique ascension.

   “The ascensional difference is the difference in degrees between the right ascension and either the oblique ascension, or oblique descension; and with respect to the sun, the ascensional difference is the time that he rises before six o'clock in summer, or sets before six in winter.”