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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              To him with swift ascent he up returned. --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The way or means by which one ascends.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. An eminence, hill, or high place. --Addison.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

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) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  ascent
       n 1: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't
            make it up the rise" [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]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  ascent
     n.
     1 The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
     2 The way or means by which one ascends.
     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; gradient; steepness
     5 (lb en typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
     6 An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  ascent
     n.
     1 The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
     2 The way or means by which one ascends.
     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; gradient; steepness
     5 (lb en typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
     6 An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  ascent
     n.
     1 The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
     2 The way or means by which one ascends.
     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; gradient; steepness
     5 (lb en typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
     6 An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  ascent
     n.
     1 The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
     2 The way or means by which one ascends.
     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; gradient; steepness
     5 (lb en typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
     6 An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  ascent
     Englanti n.
     1 nousu, kiivetä
     2 rinne, ylämäki

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  ascent
     Engelska n.
     bestigning; uppfärd

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-afr ]

  ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/
  beklimming

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/
  صعدة

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  ascent //əˈsɛnt// 
  1. издигане, изкачване
  act of ascending; motion upwards
  2. стръмнина, стръмност
  degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line
  3. стръмнина
  eminence, hill, or high place

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/ 
  stoupání

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/
  schodiště

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/
  vzestup

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/
  Anstieg , Steigung  [geogr.]

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/
  Aufstieg 
           Note: auf einen Berg, Besteigung 
           Note: eines Berges, Begehung  [sport]
           Note: einer Kletterroute
   see: ascents, mountain ascent, climbing a mountain, first ascent, first ascent
  
           Note: of a mountain/climbing route

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/
  Aufstieg  [soc.]
           Note: zu etw.
     Synonym: climb
  
           Note: to sth.

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/
  
  ανάβαση

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  ascent //əˈsɛnt// 
  1. nousu
  act of ascending; motion upwards
  2. nousu, nousukulma
  degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line
  3. korkea paikka
  eminence, hill, or high place
  4. nousu, nousureitti
  way or means by which one ascends

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/ 
  1. चढ़ाई
        "We reached a point from where we could clearly view the ascent of Mount Everest."
  2. आरोहण
        "He was the first man to make an ascent to the Mount Everest. "
        "All are proud of Santosh Yadav's ascent of Mount Everest."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/
  dizanje, nagib, nizbrdica, penjanje, strmina, uspon, uzlet

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/
  1. felemelkedés
  2. emelkedés
  3. megmászás
  4. felszállás
  5. felvezetô út
  6. meredek hegyoldal
  7. hegymenet
  8. emelkedô

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  ascent /əˈsent/ 
   1.  wspinaczka
   2.  zbocze
   3.  pójście w górę

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  ascent /ɐsˈɛnt/
  1. çıkış, yükseliş
  2. çıkacak yol, yokuş, bayır.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/əˈsɛnt/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  189 Moby Thesaurus words for "ascent":
     Brownian movement, Great Leap Forward, abruptness, access,
     accession, acclivity, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation,
     addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, airiness,
     amelioration, amendment, amplification, angular motion, apotheosis,
     appreciation, ascending, ascension, assumption, augmentation,
     axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, ballooning,
     beatification, bettering, betterment, bloating, boom, boost,
     broadening, bubbliness, buildup, buoyancy, canonization, career,
     climb, climbing, course, crescendo, current, daintiness,
     deification, delicacy, descending, descent, development, downiness,
     downward motion, drift, driftage, ebbing, edema, elevation,
     enhancement, enlargement, enrichment, enshrinement, erection,
     escalation, ethereality, eugenics, euthenics, exaltation,
     expansion, extension, flight, floatability, flood, flow,
     fluffiness, flux, foaminess, forward motion, frothiness,
     furtherance, gain, gentleness, gossameriness, greatening, growth,
     gush, headway, height, hike, improvement, increase, increment,
     inflation, jump, lack of weight, leap, levitation, levity, lift,
     lifting, lightness, melioration, mend, mending, mounting,
     multiplication, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, passage, pickup,
     plunging, precipitousness, preferment, productiveness, progress,
     progression, proliferation, promotion, radial motion, raise,
     raising, random motion, rearing, recovery, reflowing, refluence,
     reflux, regression, restoration, retrogression, revival, rise,
     rising, rising ground, run, rush, set, sideward motion, sinking,
     snowballing, soaring, softness, spread, steepness, sternway,
     stream, subsiding, surge, sursum corda, swelling, tenderness,
     traject, trajet, trend, tumescence, unheaviness, up, upbeat,
     upbuoying, upcast, upclimb, upgo, upgrade, upheaval, uphill,
     uplift, uplifting, upping, uprearing, uprise, uprising, upsurge,
     upswing, upthrow, upthrust, uptrend, upturn, upward mobility,
     upward motion, verticalness, vise, volatility, waxing,
     weightlessness, widening, yeastiness
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 上升,上坡路;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 上升,上坡,坡度,攀登;上溯,追溯

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