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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ascent \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ascent n 1: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make the grade" [syn: {acclivity}, {rise}, {raise}, {climb}, {upgrade}] [ant: {descent}] 2: a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" [syn: {rise}, {rising}, {ascension}] [ant: {fall}] 3: the act of changing location in an upward direction [syn: {rise}, {ascension}, {ascending}]
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