- An eminence, hill or high place.
- The way or means by which one ascends.
- The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
- 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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