ascent vs descent
Definitions
noun
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- a movement upward
Examples
Diving underweighted can lead to buoyant ascents at the end of the dive, so I am not advocating that everyone knocks a couple of kilos off the next time they dive.
This nascent bleach can also react with primary or secondary amines to form longer lasting, antimicrobial chloramines.
At the end of an hour, the ascent becoming every moment more abrupt, we had passed the belt of trees and bushes, and reached the smooth and scoriaceous cone, which, during the rainy season, appears from the bay to be covered with a velvety mantle of green.
Definitions
noun
- the act of changing your location in a downward direction
- a movement downward
- the descendants of one individual
- the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
- a downward slope or bend
Examples
You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
Under the crystal bright light of a full moon their blue marble shined, iridescent.
“Avoid descent rates of 800 fpm feet per minute or greater at airspeeds less than 40 KCAS,” it said, “KCAS” being the abbreviation for “knots-calibrated air speed.”
