Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ascent"
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) 1.7 (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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