[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ascent \ascent"\ 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
see also:
ascend descent 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
acclivity rise raise climb upgrade descent 
rising ascension fall ascending 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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