ascending order

Frequency: 8.025.5 per million words

Used to describe a sequence that arranges items from smallest to largest, lowest to highest, or earliest to latest.

ascendingADJECTIVE + NOUN

Categories:

order

Examples (10)

  • Please list the numbers from 1 to 10 in ascending order.
  • The data was sorted in ascending order of price to find the cheapest option.
  • For this mathematical puzzle, you must arrange the digits in ascending order.
  • The teacher asked the students to line up in ascending alphabetical order of their last names.
  • All files in this directory are displayed in ascending order by name.
  • The historical events are presented in ascending chronological order.
  • Could you sort these invoices by date, in ascending order?
  • The competition rankings are listed in ascending order, from the lowest score to the highest.
  • When programming, sorting an array in ascending order is a common task.
  • The chapters of the book follow a logical progression, arranged in ascending order of difficulty.