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English Dictionary: ascent	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ascent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ascent n an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" Synonym(s): ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade Antonym(s): declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" Synonym(s): rise, rising, ascent, ascension Antonym(s): fall the act of changing location in an upward direction Synonym(s): rise, ascent, ascension, ascending
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ascent \Ascent"\ [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.