The phrase "ascending degree" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to grammar, mathematics, or any situation where a progression or increase in intensity or value is being described.
Example: "In the poem, the author employs an ascending degree of emotion to convey the character's growing despair."
Alternatives: "increasing order" or "gradual progression".
One of Loader's favorite techniques is compiling a sequence of links -- in "ascending degrees of wackiness," she said -- on the same common word, so that successive references to the brain might include everything from a report on rodent neurophysiology to the cartoon character Martin Prince, the student genius on The Simpsons.
Augustine's view is not unlike what one finds, for example, in Plato's Timaeus [e.g. 89d-92c] or Aristotle's De Anima [e.g. 414b-415a] where different levels of soul are discussed in terms of ascending degrees of complexity in their capacities, e.g., souls capable only of reproduction and nutrition, or of sensation and locomotion as well, or finally, of rational thinking.
Increasing the ionic content by using water of ascending degrees of hardness, the dissolution or aggregation level of nanosilver particles is simultaneously rising until particles are no more detectable after 24 h.
For epidemiological purposes H1N1 cases are defined (with ascending degrees of certainty) as "suspected," "probable," or "laboratory confirmed" and the initial 2009 H1N1 case definitions emphasized contact with other known cases [ 48].
In this study, we examined the effect of the following factors, which covered the patient's characteristics, cardiac size and aortic size, and cardiac function, on the catheter placement time: the patient's age, height, weight, BSA, cardiothoracic ratio (CTR), the diameter of aortic root and proximal ascending aorta, the degree of tricuspid valve regurgitation (TR), and ejection fraction (EF).
Then I climbed a flight of metal stairs to the rooftop, ascending through 120-degree air that left my shirt damp with sweat.
The aircraft was ascending at a seven-degree angle, plus/minus one degree.
Depending on whether greenhouse gases continue to grow and other factors, temperatures are predicted to keep ascending 3 to 10 degrees F by 2100.
Both proceed by first defining the degree of a path through the network as the length of the longest sequence of links connecting its endpoints; extensions are then constructed by considering paths in ascending order of their degrees.
At the midpoint of the ride, a close encounter causes the cars to rotate 180 degrees before ascending backward up a second lift hill.
