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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an upward slope or grade (as in a road);
- Example: "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
[syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Acclivity \Ac*cliv"i*ty\, n.; pl. Acclivities. [L. acclivitas,
   fr. acclivis, acclivus, ascending; ad + clivus a hill, slope,
   fr. root kli to lean. See Lean.]
   A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill,
   considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or
   descending; an upward slope; ascent.
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