Available Definitions:
1) - The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
2) - The way or means by which one ascends.
3) - An eminence, hill, or high place.
4) - 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.