ascendable

Also found in: Thesaurus.

as·cend

(ə-sĕnd′)

v. as·cend·ed, as·cend·ing, as·cends

v.intr.

1. To go or move upward; rise: The balloon ascended into the clouds. See Synonyms at rise.

2. To slope upward: The trail ascends to an outcrop overlooking the valley.

3. To rise from a lower level or station; advance: ascended from poverty to great wealth; ascend to the throne.

4. To go back in time or upward in genealogical succession.

v.tr.

1. To move upward upon or along; climb: ascended the mountain.

2. To slope upward toward or along: The road ascends the ridge.

3. To succeed to; occupy: ascended the throne upon the death of her father.

[Middle English ascenden, from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendere : ad-, ad- + scandere, to climb; see skand- in Indo-European roots.]

as·cend′a·ble, as·cend′i·ble adj.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ascendable

ascendible

adj

having the ability to be ascended

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Adj.

ascendable - capable of being ascended

ascendible, climbable

scalable - capable of being scaled; possible to scale; "the scalable slope of a mountain"

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

VANSec's outperformance than the rest of the two algorithms is due to the fact that our scheme considerably needed less information about the network behavior and route discovery process, which remarkably reduced the network overhead and suggested best for dynamic and ascendable networks.

VANSec: Attack-Resistant VANET Security Algorithm in Terms of Trust Computation Error and Normalized Routing Overhead

As with Study of a Vertical Line, 2013--the thirty-six-foot-high fountain and ascendable scaffolding structure that the artist erected at the Middelheim Musuem, an open-air sculpture park, in Antwerp, Belgium, last year--visitors could experience the top of the water jet, here by moving up one floor within the building.