Antonym: descent. Similar words: nascent, scent, senescent, adolescent, phosphorescent, ascetic, ascertain, scene. Meaning: [-nt] 
n. 1. an upward slope or grade (as in a road) 2. a movement upward 3. the act of changing location in an upward direction.
n. 1. an upward slope or grade (as in a road) 2. a movement upward 3. the act of changing location in an upward direction. 
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121. Chinese mountain climbers made a successful ascent of Mt . McKinley in North America.
122. This generates ascent as well as negative vorticity source, which corresponds to a strongly anomaly anticyclone center appearing to the north of the heating region.
123. Some dreams are of parallel lives that one is working upon integrating in the ascent.
124. The move away from China sourcing starts with higher value-added work, boding ill for the Dragon's ambitions to outdo Japan's ascent from a cheap labor to high-tech economy.
125. The idea of an ascent through the seven spheres of the planets symbolizes the return of the soul to the sun-god from whom it originated, as we know for instance from Firmicus Maternus.
More similar words: nascent, scent, senescent, adolescent, phosphorescent, ascetic, ascertain, scene, descend, scenery, scenario, acquiescence, obsolescence, Cent., accent, decent, per cent, center, recent, central, century, incentive, reticent, recently, percentage, centurion, accentuate, egocentric, licentious, translucent.