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Definition of Ascent

Ascent The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. The way or means by which one ascends. 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; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees. Related Definitions: Act, An, Angle, As, Ascent, By, Degree, Earth, Elevation, Eminence, Five, From, Grade, He, High, Hill, Horizontal, Has, It, Line, Made, Motion, Mounting, Object, Of, One, Or, Place, Rise, Rising, Road, Tedious, The, Upward, Way, Which, With

Ascent Quotations Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play. Eric Hoffer To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. Frederick Soddy See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security. Samuel Rutherford The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. Leon Trotsky In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. James H. Breasted

Ascent Translations ascent in French is ascension ascent in German is Besteigung {f}, Aufstieg {m} ascent in Italian is ascensione, ascensione ascent in Swedish is uppfart, bestigning

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