English Dictionary

ascendancy

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈsɛndənsi/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 アイルランド英語 語頭大文字 歴史的 時々

Supremacy; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant.

日本語の意味

覇権 / 支配権 / 優位性

The entrepreneur's ascendancy in the tech industry attracted both investors and competitors.

その起業家のハイテク業界における優位性は、投資家や競合他社の両方を引きつけた。

意味（1）

Supremacy; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant.

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.

意味（2）

(historical, Ireland, sometimes capitalized) A class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century

[W. B. Yeats] belonged not to the ascendancy class but to the protestant bourgeoisie.

意味（3）

(ecology) 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.

ascendancies （ plural ）