Ascent used in a sentence

Ascent in a sentence as a noun

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.