Usually means: Part of letter extending upward.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word ascender:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. ascender: Merriam-Webster
  2. ascender: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ascender: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ascender: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ascender: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ascender, ascender: Wordnik
  7. ascender: Wiktionary
  8. ascender: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ascender: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. ascender: Dictionary.com
  11. Ascender (climbing), Ascender (typography), Ascender: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. ascender: Rhymezone
  13. ascender: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. ascender: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ascender: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. ascender: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. ascender: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ascender: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ascender: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. ascender: CCI Computer
  3. ascender: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Hiking Terms (No longer online)
  2. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ascender)

noun:  A person or thing that ascends.
noun:  (typography, graphology) The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.
noun:  (typography, uncommon) A lowercase letter that has such a portion, such as d or h.
noun:  (climbing) a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope; ascendeur.

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