From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishin ascending orderin ascending orderBIGif a group of things are arranged in ascending order, each thing is higher, or greater in amount, than the one before it → ascend
Examples from the Corpus
in ascending order• Their ages, in ascending order as above, were four, seven, ten and fourteen.• You may move cards off in ascending order from Ace to King to their respective piles off the playing area.• We ranked rural postcode sectors in ascending order of proportions of oil workers among economically active men. 