Ascent - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|əˈsent|
Brit.
|əˈsent|
noun
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road) (syn: acclivity, climb, raise, rise, upgrade)
- a movement upward (syn: ascension, rise, rising)
- the act of changing location in an upward direction (syn: ascending, ascension, rise)
- a movement upward (syn: ascension, rise, rising)
- the act of changing location in an upward direction (syn: ascending, ascension, rise)
Extra examples
They followed a steep ascent to the top of the hill.
...our plane broke through some heavy low clouds during its ascent and leveled off once we were above them...
He had effected an ascent in a balloon at Edinburgh.
A tribute to tenacity, the free ascent of Trango Tower was the fulfillment of a cowboy climber's dream.
They gradually obliqued from the direct ascent.
Word forms
noun
singular: ascent
plural: ascents
singular: ascent
plural: ascents
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