As*cen"sion*al (?), a. Relating to
ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the
ascensional power of a balloon.
Ascensional difference (Astron.), the
difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as
expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a
body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.