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[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun ascension has 5 senses

1. ascension(n = noun.time) ascension day, ascension of the lord - (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter;
is a kind of holy day of obligation

2. ascension(n = noun.event) ascent, rise, rising - a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
is a kind of change of location, travel
has particulars: climb, climbing, mounting, elevation, lift, raising, heave, heaving, liftoff, rapid climb, rapid growth, zoom, takeoff, upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust, uplifting
Derived forms verb ascend₁, adjective ascensional₁

3. ascension(n = noun.event) ascension of christ - (New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection;
is a kind of miracle

4. ascension(n = noun.event) - (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon;
is a kind of change of location, travel
Derived forms verb ascend₇, adjective ascensional₁

5. ascension(n = noun.act) ascending, ascent, rise - the act of changing location in an upward direction;
is a kind of motion, move, movement
has particulars: levitation, heave, heaving, climb, mount, soar, zoom
Derived forms verb ascend₁, adjective ascensional₁

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

ascension, n. [F. ascension, L. ascensio, fr. ascendere. See Ascend.].

1. The act of ascending; a rising; ascent. [1913 Webster]

2. Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day. [1913 Webster]

3. An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation. [1913 Webster]
"Vaporous ascensions from the stomach." [1913 Webster]

Ascension Day, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday. -- Right ascension (Astron.), that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, which rises with a star, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expressed either in degrees or in time. -- Oblique ascension (Astron.), an arc of the equator, intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator which rises together with a star, in an oblique sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the horizon with a star. It is little used in modern astronomy.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

ascension, n.
1 the act or an instance of ascending.
2 (Ascension) the ascent of Christ into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection.

Idiom:
Ascension Day the Thursday on which this is celebrated annually. right ascension Astron. longitude measured along the celestial equator.

Derivative:
ascensional adj.

Etymology:
ME f. OF f. L ascensio -onis (as ASCEND, -ION)

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Ascent

N ascent, ascension, rising, acclivity, hill, flight of steps, flight of stairs, ladder rocket, lark, sky rocket, sky lark, Alpine Club, rising, scandent, buoyant, supernatant, superfluitant, excelsior, uphill.