As-çent', n.
n. [O. Fr. as if ascente, from ascendre. Cf. DESCENT, Fr. descente, from descendre. See ASCEND.]
Sense 1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, the ascent of vapors from the earth.
To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton.
Sense 2. The way by which one ascends; the means of ascending.
Sense 3. An eminence, hill, or high place. Addison.
Sense 4. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.