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  2. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    ascent and assent. To ascend means to go up or advance from an original position. ... At the end of a sentence to may also refer to a dropped verb in the infinitive.

  3. Mount Analogue - Wikipedia

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    Daumal died before the novel was completed, providing an uncanny one-way quality to the story, which ends abruptly in the middle of a sentence. The remnants of the unfinished story were first published posthumously in French in 1952, and the first English translation was published by Vincent Stuart Ltd. in 1959.

  4. Decompression sickness - Wikipedia

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    the rate of ascent – the faster the ascent the greater the risk of developing DCS. The U.S. Navy Diving Manual indicates that ascent rates greater than about 20 m/min (66 ft/min) when diving increase the chance of DCS, while recreational dive tables such as the Bühlmann tables require an ascent rate of 10 m/min (33 ft/min) with the last 6 m ...

  5. Glossary of climbing terms - Wikipedia

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    The first successful ascent of a new route by any means, including aid climbing (i.e. not via free climbing). first free ascent. Also FFA. The first ascent of a new route without aid, following the free climbing criteria of a redpoint. first female free ascent. Also FFFA. The first female to complete a free ascent of a route that has already ...

  6. Stress (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The stress placed on words within sentences is called sentence stress or prosodic stress. That is one of the three components of prosody , along with rhythm and intonation . It includes phrasal stress (the default emphasis of certain words within phrases or clauses ), and contrastive stress (used to highlight an item, a word or part of a word ...

  7. Naismith's rule - Wikipedia

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    The original Naismith's rule from 1892 says that one should allow one hour per three miles on the map and an additional hour per 2000 feet of ascent. [1] [4] It is included in the last sentence of his report from a trip. [1] [8] Today it is formulated in many ways. Naismith's 1 h / 3 mi + 1 h / 2000 ft can be replaced by:

  8. Ascent - Wikipedia

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    The Ascent (1994 film), an American war adventure film; The Ascent (2019 film), also known as Black Ops or Stairs, is a 2019 action horror film; Kodiyettam (Ascent), 1977 Indian film written and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan "The Ascent" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), a 1996 episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

  9. Ascent of sap - Wikipedia

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    The ascent of sap in the xylem tissue of plants is the upward movement of water and minerals from the root to the aerial parts of the plant. The conducting cells in xylem are typically non-living and include, in various groups of plants, vessel members and tracheids .