ascent
English
Etymology
Formed from ascend on the model of descend/descent.
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
- 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in The AV Club:
- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
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Derived terms
- ascent vehicle
Translations
act of ascending; motion upwards
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way or means by which one ascends
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eminence, hill, or high place
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degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line
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References
- ascent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- casten, enacts, scante, secant, stance