If you are moving in an upward direction, that's an ascent, like your quick ascent from new group member last year to president this year.
The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward;
Noun
the act of changing location in an upward direction
Noun
a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
Noun
an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn''t make it up the rise"
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.
Ascent
To him with swift ascent he up returned.2.
The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward;
Usage Examples
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
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Other Usage ExamplesIn any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
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