ascensional
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Adjective (1)
- tending to riseRelating to ascent
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a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
As·cen′sion·al (…), adjective
Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon.
Ascensional difference Astronomy, the difference between oblique and right ascension; — used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54