ascending

Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence)

Please arrange these numbers in an ascending order.

Once though the station the deep-throated exhaust of G.C.R. engines, and particularly the "Directors", could be heard in ascending crescendo as the drivers opened out to take the gradient.

Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence)

We used an ascending sort.

Leading or sloping upwards.

An ascent.

continual ascendings and descendings