ascender

1 someone who ascends

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

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

English

Etymology

to ascend + -er

Noun

Related terms

• ascend
• ascent
• ascendant
• ascendance
• ascendancy/ascendency
• ascending

Translations

• French: hampe, ascendante

Spanish

Verb

ascender

1. to ascend, to mount, to climb
2. to advance
3. (status) to rise

Conjugation

thumb|390px|The ascenders are the parts of the characters that lie above the midline.In typography, an ascender is the portion of a letter in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a font. That is, the part of the letter that is taller than the font's x-height.

Ascenders, together with descenders, increase the recognizability of words. For this reason, British highway road signs that must be read quickly no longer use all capital letters.

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