Used in a Sentence

ascent

How to use ascent in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for ascent.

Editorial note

Here is a CRS-3 launch and ascent event list.

Examples11
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ascent gathered in one view.

noun

an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"

noun

a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"

noun

the act of changing location in an upward direction

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ascent.

noun

a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"

Example sentences

1

Here is a CRS-3 launch and ascent event list.

2

Try to fly the plane into a hill and alarms go off and tell you how rapidly to ascent.

3

That means you have to take all the same precautions as divers in terms of depths, ascent rates and making sure you don't get the bends.

4

In one, the person judging was the son of a prior VP who was widely despised by his peers for having made a nepotistic ascent through the ranks.

5

Yet somehow he's ridden on the coattails of Apple's ascent by positioning himself among the fandom as a "champion of good taste".

6

Some people break themselves on the ascent, others spend themselves reaching the summit and have no energy to continue safely down the far side.

7

Looking backward, the primary competition has been web, not OS X. Looking forward, the ascent of mobile is only making it easier to deprioritise Windows.

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However Larry would know perfectly well that Chrome's recent ascent to largest market share is a side effect of pre-loading pages, and not representative of actual use.

9

The second was that a circuit breaker used for arming the ascent engines on the LM got broken during an EVA and the astronauts had to improvise by using a felt-tip pen to activate it.

10

When you're at the top of the 49-story building, you're at a local maximum of height and close to the global maximum, but you're not exactly a short gradient-ascent jaunt away from the global maximum.

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The launcher cost metric is basically dollars per kg into orbit, and for a given reusable rocket, lox+hydrogen will get many more kgs into orbit than lox+kerosene - you need to keep much less fuel back in reserve to land the various rocket stages, and the extra fuel you can use on the ascent is also a lot more thrusty per unit mass.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ascent in a sentence?

Here is a CRS-3 launch and ascent event list.

What does ascent mean?

an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"

What part of speech is ascent?

ascent is commonly used as noun.