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
The ascent of a character cell defines the position of the baseline within every character cell of a font It is the number of pixels from the top of the cell to the baseline The baseline is not a pixel row itself, but occurs between two pixel rows
An ascent is an upward slope or path, especially when you are walking or climbing. It was a tough course over a gradual ascent before the big climb of Bluebell Hill. descent
In traditional typography the ascent of a font was the distance from the top of a block of type to the baseline Its precise meaning in modern typograph seems to vary with different definers
An ascent is an upward journey, especially when you are walking or climbing. In 1955 he led the first ascent of Kangchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain. descent