ascender

/əˈsɛndər/
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Other forms: ascenders

Definitions of ascender
  1. noun
    someone who ascends
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    types:
    climber, mounter
    someone who ascends on foot
    type of:
    mover
    someone who moves
  2. noun
    (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters
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    type of:
    line
    a mark that is long relative to its width
  3. noun
    a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters
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    type of:
    alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet
    the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
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