Ascensional adj. Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon.
Ascensional difference (Astron.), 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.
... might be increased so as to abstract almost all the heat from the escaping fumes, but for the limitations imposed, first, by a consideration of the actual quantity of air required to support combustion, and, secondly, by the obligation to let sufficient ascensional power remain in the gases which are left to pass out through the upper chimney. If the gases are cooled too much, they will either fall back into the lamp and extinguish the flame, or will be removable only by the draught of a ... — Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various Read full book for free!
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