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Ascent

//əˈsɛnt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of ascending; a motion upwards. countable, uncountable

    "He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc."

  2. 2
    the act of changing location in an upward direction wordnet
  3. 3
    The way or means by which one ascends. countable, uncountable

    "There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux."

  4. 4
    a movement upward; rise above the ground wordnet
  5. 5
    An eminence, hill, or high place. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    an upward slope or grade (as in a road) wordnet
  2. 7
    The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness countable, uncountable

    "The road has an ascent of 5 degrees."

  3. 8
    The ascender height in a typeface. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy countable, uncountable

    "That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations."

Etymology

Formed from ascend on the model of descend/descent.

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