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In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.
Douglas Fairbanks

Meaning of "ascendency" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ASCENDENCY

ascendency  [əˈsɛndənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASCENDENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ascendency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ASCENDENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

ascendency

Ascendency

Ascendency is a quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network. Ascendency is derived using mathematical tools from information theory. It is intended to capture in a single index the ability of an ecosystem to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size. One way of depicting ascendency is to regard it as “organized power”, because the index represents the magnitude of the power that is flowing within the system towards particular ends, as distinct from power that is dissipated willy-nilly. Almost half a century earlier, Alfred J. Lotka had suggested that a system’s capacity to prevail in evolution was related to its ability to capture useful power. Ascendency can thus be regarded as a refinement of Lotka’s supposition that also takes into account how power is actually being channeled within a system. In mathematical terms, ascendency is the product of the aggregate amount of material or energy being transferred in an ecosystem times the coherency with which the outputs from the members of the system relate to the set of inputs to the same components.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ASCENDENCY


abundancy
əˈbʌndənsɪ
ascendancy
əˈsɛndənsɪ
attendancy
əˈtɛndənsɪ
co-dependency
ˌkəʊdɪˈpɛndənsɪ
correspondency
ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndənsɪ
countertendency
ˈkaʊntəˌtendənsɪ
dependancy
dɪˈpɛndənsɪ
dependency
dɪˈpɛndənsɪ
despondency
dɪˈspɒndənsɪ
impendency
ɪmˈpendənsɪ
independency
ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənsɪ
intendancy
ɪnˈtɛndənsɪ
interdependency
ˌɪntədɪˈpɛndənsɪ
pendency
ˈpɛndənsɪ
redundancy
rɪˈdʌndənsɪ
resplendency
rɪˈsplɛndənsɪ
respondency
rɪˈspɒndənsɪ
superintendency
ˌsuːpərɪnˈtɛndənsɪ
tendency
ˈtɛndənsɪ
transcendency
trænˈsɛndənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASCENDENCY

ascend
ascend the throne
ascendable
ascendance
ascendancy
ascendant
ascendantly
ascendence
ascendent
ascender
ascendeur
ascendible
ascending
ascending scale
ascension
Ascension Day
Ascension Island
ascensional
ascensionist

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASCENDENCY

agency
ardency
bearish tendency
cadency
central tendency
co-presidency
coincidency
confidency
decadency
high-dependency
impudency
Militant Tendency
precedency
presidency
pudency
residency
revolving presidency
Ross Dependency
stridency
subsidency
vice-presidency

Synonyms and antonyms of ascendency in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «ascendency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ASCENDENCY

Find out the translation of ascendency to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ascendency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ascendency» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

支配地位
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ascendiente
570 millions of speakers

English

ascendency
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रधानता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السياده
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

господство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ascendência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উদয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ascendant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kenaikan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ueber
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ascendency
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

욱일승천의 세력
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ascendency
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có thế lực
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ascendency
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चढण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hüküm sürme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ascendente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ascendency
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

панування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ascensiunea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ascendency
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ascendency
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ascendency
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Ascendency
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ascendency

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASCENDENCY»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASCENDENCY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ascendency

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QUOTES WITH «ASCENDENCY»

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Douglas Fairbanks
In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASCENDENCY»

Discover the use of ascendency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ascendency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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African Capitalism: The Struggle for Ascendency
This 1988 book provides an analysis of African capitalism which offers a positive view of its role.
Paul T. Kennedy, Paul M. Kennedy, 1988
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The Passing of Spain and the Ascendency of America
J.B. Crabtree. the greater part of this has been secured since 1880. The Netherlands, with a home population less than that of Pennsylvania and an area slightly greater than that of Maryland, hold dependencies in the East Indies and West ...
J.B. Crabtree, 1898
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Remarks on Catholic emancipation, and on the former ...
Benjamin DOCKRAY. 525/” 1;». dig/M (L vii/441:» 'MIA— REMARKS / 0“ A'Pfa/Il; . I CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION, ' / kA / // j ,W /, / Mm ON THE flilq/zf,/Llu A, 1/41,:wa -// FORMER ASCENDENCY AND PRESENT STATE OF THE ROMAN ...
Benjamin DOCKRAY, 1829
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Ecosystem Ecology
To show how the ascendency responds to turnover times of various elements, the differential ofAB regarding compartment p is given as qAB 1⁄4 2T::B: – 1 T:pk þ Tp :k qBpk 2 Bpk 1⁄220 Here the relative contributions of all elements investigated ...
Sven Erik Jørgensen, 2009
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Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set: Online version
which is also called the Kullback–Leibler information. Scaling by the total system throughput gives the biomass inclusive ascendency, AB: AB 1⁄4 TSTXi;jTijT::logT ijB2 T :: BiBj 1⁄217a or TijB2 T :: B Bj 1⁄217b AB 1⁄4 X i;j Tij log i AB is sensitive ...
‎2008
6
Landscape Ecology: A Top Down Approach
where the scaled index, A, is renamed the system "ascendency." It is an amalgamated measure of the tendency for a system to increase in both activity and structure (constraint) via internal autocatalysis. We note that the ascendency is fully ...
James Sanderson, 1999
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A New Ecology: Systems Perspective
These could be grouped under increases in species richness, trophic specificity, cycling, and containment. It happens that, other things being equal, an increase in any of these attributes will result in an increase of systems ascendency.
Sven Erik Jørgensen, Brian Fath, Simone Bastianoni, 2011
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A New Ecology
to yield the storage-inclusive ascendency (U lanowicz and Abarca-Arenas, 1997) as: r132 _ ii - A_ I'jlogfreejj t,j -- l Biomass storage: Odum (1969) proposed 24 trends to be expected as ecosystems develop and mature. These could be ...
S. E. Jorgensen, B. D. Fath, S. Bastianoni
9
Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
The word is ascendency. . . . This Protestant ascendency means nothing less than ... an ascendency, in public assemblies in England, that is, by a liberal distribution of places and pensions, and other graces of government. This last is wide ...
Edmund Burke, Peter James Stanlis, 1997
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Before these pages issue from the press little doubt upon the subject will exist in the mind of any reasonable man, of whatever political party, not likely to be benefited by the ascendency of the two-pounders, in any part of the united kingdom.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASCENDENCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ascendency is used in the context of the following news items.
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Theatre Review: "Tintypes" at Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake
Jul 06, 2015 — "Tintypes" features songs and characters of "The Gilded Age,"another time in America of the ascendency of the "One Percent.". «North Country Public Radio, Jul 15»
2
Lehane fires Cork to victory as Dublin and Clare advance
After we scored our goal we had a few minutes where we were in the ascendency as well. "When Offaly scored their goal there was nothing in it ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
3
Centurions avenge opening-day loss to Crusaders
A yellow card for Chris Davies meant Cents started the second half with 12 men, but the hosts were still in the ascendency as Shaw released ... «Herts Advertiser, Jul 15»
4
Norths Chargers charge to the top of the table
... Songoro scored shortly after and Smith converted from out wide and the surge was on, the Chargers easily gaining the ascendency 22-14. «Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, Jul 15»
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Score USA vs Japan in 2015 Women's World Cup Final (5-2)
The Australians began the game in the ascendency, and Hope Solo had to make a number of early saves to keep the Americans in the match. «VAVEL.com, Jul 15»
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The Riskin Row: Crossroads For Modern Orthodoxy?
To the obvious dismay of Rabbi Student, Rabbi Riskin has not kowtowed to the intellectual ascendency of the charedi right, but has rather ... «The Jewish Week, Jul 15»
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After a bright start, CSU get stuck in the middle
Initially it was CSU with the ascendency as their own number 8 Michael Thompson went over following a mistake between Emus' back three ... «Western Advocate, Jul 15»
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Arda Turan wants Chelsea move, after deciding to reject Barcelona
However, he has been one of the key men in Diego Simeone's side's ascendency into the title race in La Liga over the past few years. «A Different League, Jul 15»
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Sri Lanka on the ascendency as Mathews takes charge
Angelo Mathews who played a captain's innings to rescue his team out of trouble with an unbeaten half-century on the third day of the third and ... «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Jul 15»
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WEBB: Additions should help Riecken's campaign
Riecken's team should steer clear of attack ads. Instead, they should show us who Gail is, what she values, and how her ascendency to the ... «Evansville Courier & Press, Jul 15»

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