() The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
() The way or means by which one ascends.
() 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; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(2) After unsuccessful treatment with surgical debridement and high-dose antibiotic therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy was administered in a multiplace recompression chamber (one hour of treatment at 1.8 atmospheres absolute followed by a 30 minute "ascent" to surface pressure).
(3) It expresses the ratio between the partial pressure of the dissolved gas and the reduction of hydrostatic pressure during ascent (given as pressure gradient).
(4) Grace's ascent has also thrown a grenade into the bitter succession battle within Zanu-PF, which Mugabe has divided and ruled for decades.
(5) The open-sea dives were carried out with an average speed of descent of 3.95 feet per second and an average rate of ascent of 3.50 feet per second.
(6) It will be payback time, after Mutharika and five other ministers were arrested and charged with treason for trying to block her ascent.
(7) According to Wangchu Sherpa, an official from the Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu, Upadhyay had arrived at the Everest base camp in mid-April and had been waiting for good weather to start acclimatising for his ascent.
(8) It's a pointy peak in the middle of the Tijuca forest, the last portion of which involves a steep ascent up steps cut into the bare rock, hanging on to an iron chain.
(9) There was a diuresis with negative fluid balance towards the end of the ascent and again early in descent.
(10) The road-race course, on the other hand, has two ascents of Box Hill, which will definitely suit Pooley's climbing ability.
(11) In diagnosis it is necessary to distin guish between unnoticed expulsion, ascent of the tail into the cavity, and perforation.
(12) The walk that will always stay in my mind is one that I enjoyed with my climbing partner Paul Ramsden and our liaison officer, Dawa, after we had made the first ascent of beautiful Manamcho (6,264m) in the Nyainqentanglha East range of eastern Tibet.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nima Dorchi at work establishing a safe route through the Khumbu iceflow, a key stage of the Everest mountain range ascent.
(14) "Mr Valls's ascent is partly thanks to a keen eye for what looks good in the media, and a matching energy to supply it," the magazine wrote.
(15) The electromyograms produced by the prime mover muscles (sternal portion of pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, long head of triceps brachii) achieved maximal activation at the commencement of the ascent phase of the lift and maintained this level essentially unchanged throughout the upward movement of the bar.
(16) The spectacular ascent that saw him grace the cover of Newsweek as Asian of the Year and become the heir apparent of then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was met with an equally spectacular crash in 1998, when the two fell out and Anwar was imprisoned for six years on corruption and sodomy charges, claims he repeatedly dismissed as politically motivated.
(17) After the collapse of the Soviet Union Putin enjoyed a spectacular ascent : aide to St Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak; deputy mayor; head of the FSB spy agency; prime minister.
(18) Zero order kinetics is deduced from the linear ascent of the cumulated AUC (in percent) vs. time plot.
(19) In the supine position ear clearing was significantly more difficult during both ascent and descent, which indicates that it is preferable to assume an upright body posture during exposures to pressure changes in dry pressure chambers.
(20) The 60th anniversary of the first ascent of the 8,848 metre (29,028ft) peak by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay will be celebrated next week.
Zoom
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT, said: “These figures mark an encouraging start to the year after a very strong 2014, with a strikingly robust company car market as businesses take advantage of the attractive finance offers currently available.” British car sales zoom ahead, but for how long?
(2) In this study, the COR was observed to shift linearly with zoom factor.
(3) While the Nexus One's single-finger prodding works well enough, there's none of the pinching action to zoom into maps and photographs that makes the iPhone feel so advanced, nor its realistic-feel friction.
(4) A digital zoom would be nice too; perhaps that's next year's thing.
(5) What followed was a rocket that zoomed past Gomes and City were two ahead.
(6) Endoscopy of the nose and nasopharynx using rigid endoscopes and the zoom-laryngoscope-epipharyngoscope after v. Stuckrad enhances the diagnostics in these regions considerably.
(7) The resolution indices were observed to be more sensitive to COR shift for clinical data acquired using no zoom factor.
(8) The use of surface coils in combination with a special gradient-zoom-technique allows high resolution imaging.
(9) "Twenty minutes later, Laurie Cunningham picked the ball up, zoomed through their defence and banged it in the net again.
(10) First there was the one whipped up by the invasive glare of the TV cameras, zooming in on the respective engagement rings of Sears and Ester Satorova, Berdych’s fiancee.
(11) It can be performed either in local anaesthesia using the zoom-endoscope by v. Stuckrad or during microlaryngoscopy under general anaesthesie.
(12) ZOOM can also configured itself to adapt to the hardware available.
(13) The CT scans were performed with the patients in standard positions; thin slices and zoom technique were used.
(14) Against a driving operatic score, the camera zooms out from a large government building to reveal features of the area's imagined urban topography: a clock tower, a new airport, an oil refinery, a light-rail system, and a stadium packed with cheering fans.
(15) The influence of zooming on COR depends on the location and the deviation of the COR from the axis-of-rotation (AOR).
(16) From Wall Street to Silicon Valley , from big pharma to the lobby machines in Washington and Westminster, zoom in and you’ll see rentiers everywhere.
(17) Opinion plays a prominent role at the front of the book and a section called Zoom takes readers into more in-depth stories, analysis of big events, reportage and news features.
(18) Then zoom out again to use your "thin pen" to manipulate the foam you've floated on the surface.
(19) But while the share sales element is expected to continue raking in £3bn until the end of the Treasury's time horizon of 2018, SDLT will zoom back to £12.2bn.
(20) The information files for ZOOM can be created or modified by the instructor using a word processor, and thus can be designed to suit the need of students.