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Meaning of ascent

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  ascent
      n 1: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't
           make it up the rise" [syn: {ascent}, {acclivity}, {rise},
           {raise}, {climb}, {upgrade}] [ant: {declension},
           {declination}, {decline}, {declivity}, {descent},
           {downslope}, {fall}]
      2: a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air
         balloon" [syn: {rise}, {rising}, {ascent}, {ascension}] [ant:
         {fall}]
      3: the act of changing location in an upward direction [syn:
         {rise}, {ascent}, {ascension}, {ascending}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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