ascent

English

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Noun

ascent (plural ascents)

1. The act of ascending. A motion upwards.

   He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.

2. The way or means by which one ascends.

   There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.

3. An eminence, hill, or high place.
4. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade.

   The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.

5. (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Translations

act of ascending; motion upwards

Arabic: صعود (ar) (ṣuʿūd) m., تسلق (ar) (tasálluq) m. Bulgarian: издигане (bg), изкачване (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 上升 (zh) (shàngshēng) Dutch: stijging (nl) f.

Finnish: nousu (fi) German: Anstieg m., Aufstieg m.; Besteigung f. (of a mountain) Persian: صعود (fa) Russian: восхождение (ru) (vosxoždénije) n., подъём (ru) (pod”jóm) m. Vietnamese: lên (vi)

way or means by which one ascends

Finnish: nousu (fi), nousureitti (fi)

German: Aufstieg (de) m.

eminence, hill, or high place

Bulgarian: стръмнина (bg)

Finnish: korkea (fi) paikka (fi)

degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line

Bulgarian: стръмност (bg), стръмнина (bg) Dutch: stijging (nl) f.

Finnish: nousu (fi), nousukulma (fi) German: Steigung (de) f., Anstieg (de) m.

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