Cryptic crossword clue
Aiming high, Alpine Club accepting singular conclusion 9

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ASCENDING

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What does ASCENDING mean?

ASCENDING verb
  1. To move upward, to fly, to soar.
  2. To slope in an upward direction.
  3. To go up.
  4. To succeed.
  5. To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
  6. To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
  7. To become higher in pitch.
ASCENDING noun
  1. An ascent.
ASCENDING adjective
  1. (of a sequence) Ordered such that each element is greater than or equal to the previous element.
  2. That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.

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