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Ascent Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Ascent? [n] the act of changing location in an upward direction [n] a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" [n] an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make the grade" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Ascent: acclivity \| ascending \| ascension \| ascension \| climb \| raise \| rise \| rise \| rise \| rising \| upgrade Related Terms \| Find terms related to Ascent: abruptness \| access \| accession \| acclivity \| accretion \| accrual \| accruement \| accumulation \| addition \| advance \| advancement \| aggrandizement \| airiness \| amelioration \| amendment \| amplification \| angular motion \| apotheosis \| appreciation \| ascending \| ascension \| assumption \| augmentation \| axial motion \| backflowing \| backing \| backward motion \| ballooning \| beatification \| bettering \| betterment \| bloating \| boom \| boost \| broadening \| Brownian movement \| bubbliness \| buildup \| buoyancy \| canonization \| career \| climb \| climbing \| course \| crescendo \| current \| daintiness \| deification \| delicacy \| descending \| descent \| development \| downiness \| downward motion \| drift \| driftage \| ebbing \| edema \| elevation \| enhancement \| enlargement \| enrichment \| enshrinement \| erection \| escalation \| ethereality \| eugenics \| euthenics \| exaltation \| expansion \| extension \| flight \| floatability \| flood \| flow \| fluffiness \| flux \| foaminess \| forward motion \| frothiness \| furtherance \| gain \| gentleness \| gossameriness \| Great Leap Forward \| greatening \| growth \| gush \| headway \| height \| hike \| improvement \| increase \| increment \| inflation \| jump \| lack of weight \| leap \| levitation \| levity \| lift \| lifting \| lightness \| melioration \| mend \| mending \| mounting \| multiplication \| oblique motion \| ongoing \| onrush \| passage \| pickup \| plunging \| precipitousness \| preferment \| productiveness \| progress \| progression \| proliferation \| promotion \| radial motion \| raise \| raising \| random motion \| rearing \| recovery \| reflowing \| refluence \| reflux \| regression \| restoration \| retrogression \| revival \| rise \| rising \| rising ground \| run \| rush \| set \| sideward motion \| sinking \| snowballing \| soaring \| softness \| spread \| steepness \| sternway \| stream \| subsiding \| surge \| sursum corda \| swelling \| tenderness \| traject \| trajet \| trend \| tumescence \| unheaviness \| up \| upbeat \| upbuoying \| upcast \| upclimb \| upgo \| upgrade \| upheaval \| uphill \| uplift \| uplifting \| upping \| uprearing \| uprise \| uprising \| upsurge \| upswing \| upthrow \| upthrust \| uptrend \| upturn \| upward mobility \| upward motion \| verticalness \| vise \| volatility \| waxing \| weightlessness \| widening \| yeastiness See Also \| change of location \| climb \| climb \| climbing \| elevation \| heave \| heave \| heaving \| heaving \| incline \| levitation \| lift \| liftoff \| motion \| mount \| mounting \| move \| movement \| raising \| rapid climb \| rapid growth \| side \| slope \| soar \| takeoff \| travel \| upheaval \| uphill \| uplift \| uplifting \| upthrow \| upthrust \| zoom \| zoom Ascent In Webster's Dictionary \As*cent"\ [Formed like descent, as if from a F. ascente, fr. a verb ascendre, fr. L. ascendere. See {Ascend}, {Descent}.] 1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. --Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or high place. --Addison. 4. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.

Ascent Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ascent?

[n] the act of changing location in an upward direction
[n] a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
[n] an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make the grade"

Ascent In Webster's Dictionary

\As*cent"\ [Formed like descent, as if from a F. ascente,
fr. a verb ascendre, fr. L. ascendere. See {Ascend},
{Descent}.]
1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward;
   as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from
   the earth.

         To him with swift ascent he up returned. --Milton.

2. The way or means by which one ascends.

3. An eminence, hill, or high place. --Addison.

4. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it
   makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade;
   as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.

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