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ascendancy

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Fromascend +‎-ancy orascendant +‎-cy. The use in ecology is due toRobert Ulanowicz.

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ascendancy (countable anduncountable,pluralascendancies)

  1. Thequality of being in theascendant;dominantcontrol,supremacy.
    Synonyms:ascendant,superiority
    • 2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, inBBC‎[1]:
      Spurs ended the half in theascendancy and Van der Vaart was again inches away from giving them the lead when he met Bale's cross but his header flew wide.
    • 2018 July 18, Owen Jones, “The hard right can only be defeated from the left, not from the centre”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:
      The Tory hard right is in theascendancy, and a fascist street movement – led by convicted fraudster Tommy Robinson – represents a growing threat.
  2. (historical, Ireland, sometimes capitalized)Ellipsis ofProtestant Ascendancy, a class ofProtestantlandowners andprofessionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century.
    • 1975,Terry Eagleton,New Left Review:
      [W. B. Yeats] belonged not to theascendancy class but to the protestant bourgeoisie.
    • 2017, John Gibney, “The Age of O'Connell”, inA Short History of Ireland, 1500–2000, New Haven: Yale University Press,→ISBN:
      True, the “ascendancy” remained a crucial and significant governing class in Irish life, and would remain so for generations.
  3. (ecology) Aquantitativeattribute of anecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem'strophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size.[from 1986]
    • 2009, Sven Erik Jørgensen, editor,Ecosystem Ecology, Academic Press,→ISBN,page63:
      Ascendency was found to be a useful indicator for the health assessment of marine benthic ecosystems over space and time.

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supremacy; superiority; dominant control

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