Ascent (novel)
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of changing location in an upward direction
(2) A movement upward
"They cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
(3) An upward slope or grade (as in a road)
"The car couldn't make it up the rise"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The act of ascending. A motion upwards.
- He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.
- The way or means by which one ascends.
- There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.
- An eminence, hill, or high place.
- 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.
- The ascender height in a typeface.