ascent
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈsɛnt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnt
- Homophone: assent
- Hyphenation: as‧cent
Noun
ascent (countable and uncountable, plural ascents)
- The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
- He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.
- The way or means by which one ascends.
- There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.
- An eminence, hill, or high place.
- The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness
- The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.
- (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
- An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy
Derived terms
Translations
act of ascending; motion upwards
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eminence, hill, or high place
References
- “ascent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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