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)

Noun

(en noun)

A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.

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, volume=100, issue=2, page=171, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Well-connected Brains , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}

(label) A day.

(label) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.

(label) A day's work.

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