(n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.
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Ascension
Definition:
(n.) The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.
(n.) Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.
(n.) An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interpretation of scans was equivocal in another 18% of patients due to undetectable ascension of the tracer to the uterus.
(2) Particular interest is paid to trisomy 21 in which all recognizable stereotyped morphological skull and brain malformations are depicted with magnetic resonance and some other malformations demonstrated such as the excessive forward bending and ascension of the brainstem which correlated well with a simian cephalic organization.
(3) It was also clear it was going to be a close contest, and heated by the antagonism between the incumbent president, Joyce Banda, and her main rival, Peter Mutharika, who led an earlier effort to block her rightful ascension to power.
(4) Several parameters exhibited characteristic changes during anoxia and reoxygenation: during the first minutes of reoxygenation in the ascension of the first peak the 'time to peak force', the 'relaxation time' and the 'area under the contraction curve', especially the part below the relaxation, were strongly but only transiently increased.
(5) In other items, the MoD spent: • £2.2m on rents and rates to the Ascension Island government whose airport the RAF uses for planes flying to the Falkands.
(6) Abbott has in an interview with Fairfax unleashed a fresh tirade about Julie Bishop , accusing her of peddling falsehoods about the events leading up to Turnbull’s ascension.
(7) Purnell's ascension to the backbenches will add to the many meetings Cruddas has been convening in the last few days to figure out what to do.
(8) The ascension of Justin Welby to archbishop of Canterbury is confirmation of the quiet parallel rise of a controversial evangelical church in central London to become the most influential congregation in the Church of England.
(9) Activity was temperature dependent and no obvious preference of vegetation species for ascension was detected.
(10) Donald Trump’s ascension to the presidency has been marked with tough talk on China and he has surrounded himself with a clique of China-bashing advisers.
(11) It started off with great promise, we got a room with a view, we got an extra staff member – but not much else,” Day said of Turnbull’s ascension to the prime ministership in September last year.
(12) Based upon the drag calculations for young turtles, it is estimated that adult turtles making the round-trip breeding migration between Brazil and Ascension Island (4800 km) would require the equivalent of about 21% of their body mass in fat stores to account for the energetic cost of swimming.
(13) The demonstrated postoperativ ascension of bacteria in the upper urinary tract in spite of successfull surgical treatment cannot be taken as an argument against operation.
(14) Reflux is not the cause of the ascension of microorganisms into the urinary bladder, yet it enables bacteria to reach the kidney and fosters pyelonephritis, persistent infections and nephropathy with all its consequences.
(15) Marked improvement in mictional disorders was obtained also in the 3rd case after excision of a sacral extradural lipoma and section of the filum terminale, allowing objective ascension of the medullary cone by 4 cm.
(16) The best correlations between echo and phonocardiography are the values of aortic valve opening and : --hemi-ascension time (r = 0.67); --left ventricular ejectiontime (r = 0.93) when patients in cardiac failure are excluded.
(17) The sonographically determined ascension of the bladder content into the renal pelvis is called "positive MSU".
(18) This observation suggested that urine taxis of gram-negative bacteria promotes their invasion of the human lower urinary tract and their ascension to the kidney(s).
(19) Estrogens cause softening, opening, and ascension of the cervix, while progesterone causes descent and hardening.
(20) Those of us who are nearly her age can remember the Queen’s ascension to the throne and the cheerful delight with which people talked of the “New Elizabethan age”.