ascendancy en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /əˈsɛndənsi/
Etymology
From ascend + -ancy or ascendant + -cy. The use in ecology is due to Robert Ulanowicz.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
Spurs ended the half in the ascendancy and Van der Vaart was again inches away from giving them the lead when he met Bale's cross but his header flew wide.
2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, in BBC:The Tory hard right is in the ascendancy, and a fascist street movement – led by convicted fraudster Tommy Robinson – represents a growing threat.
2018 July 18, Owen Jones, “The hard right can only be defeated from the left, not from the centre”, in The Guardian:
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(Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, capitalized, countable, ellipsis, historical, sometimes, uncountable) Ellipsis of Protestant Ascendancy, a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century.
alt of Protestant Ascendancy
[W. B. Yeats] belonged not to the ascendancy class but to the protestant bourgeoisie.
1975, Terry Eagleton, New Left Review:True, the “ascendancy” remained a crucial and significant governing class in Irish life, and would remain so for generations.
2017, John Gibney, “The Age of O'Connell”, in A Short History of Ireland, 1500–2000, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN:
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(countable, uncountable) A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size.
Ascendency was found to be a useful indicator for the health assessment of marine benthic ecosystems over space and time.
2009, Sven Erik Jørgensen, editor, Ecosystem Ecology, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 63:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| ascendancies | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| ascendency | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (48)
de Vorherrschaft (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · cmn 優勢 /优势 (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · yue 優勢 /优势 (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · bg влияние (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ro ascendență (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · hu uralom (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ar سَطْوَة (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · az zabitə (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ja 優位 (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · es ascendencia (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · et ülevõim (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · cs nadvláda (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · is ofurvald (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · nl overhand (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · bg власт (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · it influsso (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ro superioritate (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · pl panowanie (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · es influencia (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · pl władza (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ro supremație (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · nl overwicht (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · pt ascendência (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ru власть (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · hu hatalom (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ko 우위 (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · fr ascendant (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · hu tekintély (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · de Überlegenheit (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · yue 支配地位 (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · az nüfuz (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ja 優勢 (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · bg господство (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · fi valta-asema (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ru превосхо́дство (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ar تَفَوُّق (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · bg надмощие (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · de Einfluss (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ga cinseal (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · cs převaha (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · fi valta-asemassa oleva (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ko 우세 (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · de Vormachtstellung (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · es predominio (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · es ascendiente (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · de Vormacht (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · pl przewaga (supremacy; superiority; dominant control) · ru госпо́дство (supremacy; superiority; dominant control)