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Definition of ascent



Overview of noun ascent

The noun ascent has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade

(an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise")

2. rise, rising, ascent, ascension

(a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon")

3. rise, ascent, ascension, ascending

(the act of changing location in an upward direction)