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Ascent vs Altimeter - What's the difference?

ascent | altimeter |

As nouns the difference between ascent and altimeter

is that ascent is the act of ascending a motion upwards while altimeter is an apparatus for measuring altitude.

ascent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of ascending. A motion upwards.
    • He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.
  • The way or means by which one ascends.
    • There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.
  • 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.
    • The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.
  • (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
  • An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
    (Webster 1913)

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    altimeter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * altimetre (nonstandard)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An apparatus for measuring altitude.

    • Related terms

    * altimetric * altimetry * absolute altimeter