ascent

ascent has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. the act of changing location in an upward direction
• n.. a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
• n.. an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"