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ascender

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: ascender

1
n
someone who ascends
2
n
(printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: ascender
1

n someone who ascends

Types:
climber, mounter
someone who ascends on foot
Type of:
mover
someone who moves
2

n (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters

Type of:
line
a mark that is long relative to its width

n a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters

Type of:
alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
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