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Noun
/əˈsendənsē/,
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Occupation of a position of dominant power or influence,
  1. Occupation of a position of dominant power or influence
    • - the ascendancy of good over evil
    • - they have a moral ascendancy over the rich
  1. dominance: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
  2. 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. ...
  3. Ascendancy is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Trivium. Released on March 15, 2005 by Roadrunner Records, the album charted at number 151 on the American Billboard 200 albums chart though is widely regarded as the band's 'breakthrough' album.
  4. Ascendancy is a 1982 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I. Gradually, she learns about the Irish independence movement, and becomes involved with it.
  5. Ascendancy is a 4X science fiction turn-based strategy computer game. It was released for DOS in 1995 by The Logic Factory. Ascendancy is a galactic struggle to become the dominant life force; to ascend into a higher plane of existence.
  6. The process or period of one's ascent; Supremacy; superiority; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant
  7. (1995), computer game. Player tries to grow a colony into a spacefaring civilization.