What is the meaning of upwards?

adverb

  • Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position.
    • usage: "look up"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile"
  • To a later time.
    • usage: "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
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