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as·cent    Audio Help   [uh-sent] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.an act of ascending; upward movement; a rising movement: the ascent of a balloon.
2.movement upward from a lower to a higher state, degree, grade, or status; advancement: His ascent to the governorship came after a long political career.
3.the act of climbing or traveling up: Three climbers attempted the ascent of Mount Rainier.
4.the way or means of ascending; upward slope; acclivity.
5.a movement or return toward a source or beginning.
6.the degree of inclination; gradient: a steep ascent.

[Origin: 1590–1600; deriv. of ascend, on the model of descent]
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as·cent    Audio Help   (ə-sěnt')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The act or process of rising or going upward.
  2. An advancement, especially in social status.
  3. An upward slope or incline.
  4. A going back in time or upward in genealogical succession.


[From ascend, on the model of descent.]

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ascent

noun
1. an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [ant: declension
2. a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" [syn: rise] [ant: fall
3. the act of changing location in an upward direction [syn: rise

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aˈscent1 [-t] noun
the act of climbing or going up
Example: The ascent of Mount Everest.
Arabic: صُعود، تَسَلُّـق
Chinese (Simplified): 登高
Chinese (Traditional): 登高
Czech: výstup
Danish: opstigning; bestigning
Dutch: beklimming
Estonian: tõus
Finnish: nousu
French: ascension
German: die Besteigung
Greek: σκαρφάλωμα
Hungarian: megmászás
Icelandic: uppganga
Indonesian: pendakian
Italian: ascesa, scalata
Japanese: 登り
Korean: 올라가기
Latvian: kāpšana
Lithuanian: kopimas, kilimas
Norwegian: oppstigning, bestigning
Polish: wejście
Portuguese (Brazil): escalada
Portuguese (Portugal): subida
Romanian: ascensiune
Russian: восхождение
Slovak: výstup
Slovenian: vzpon
Spanish: ascensión
Swedish: bestigning, uppstigning, uppfärd
Turkish: çıkış, tırmanış
aˈscent2 [-t] noun
a slope upwards
Example: a steep ascent
Arabic: مُنْحَدَر إلى أعْلى
Chinese (Simplified): 斜坡
Chinese (Traditional): 斜坡
Czech: svah
Danish: stigning
Dutch: helling
Estonian: tõusev kallak
Finnish: rinne
French: montée
German: der Aufstieg
Greek: πλαγιά
Hungarian: emelkedő
Icelandic: brekka upp í móti
Indonesian: tanjakan
Italian: salita
Japanese: 上り坂
Korean: 오르막길
Latvian: stāvums
Lithuanian: šlaitas
Norwegian: motbakke, stigning
Polish: wzniesienie
Portuguese (Brazil): aclive
Portuguese (Portugal): subida
Romanian: urcuş
Russian: подъём
Slovak: svah
Slovenian: vzpon
Spanish: cuesta, pendiente
Swedish: stigning
Turkish: yokuş, bayır
See also: ascendancy/ascendency, ascend, ascend the throne

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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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