Usually means: Point where orbit crosses upward.
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  1. ascending node: Merriam-Webster
  2. ascending node: Vocabulary.com
  3. ascending node: Wordnik
  4. ascending node: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Ascending node, ascending node: Dictionary.com
  6. Ascending node: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. ascending node: Rhymezone
  8. ascending node: FreeDictionary.org
  9. ascending node: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. ascending node: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. ascending node: Merriam-Webster
  12. ascending node: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ascending node: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ascending Node: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Ascending Node: Extragalactic Astronomy

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ascending node)

noun:  (astronomy) The point in an orbit at which a body passes the ecliptic plane going north.

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