First Ascent

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
FA
Pronunciation
/fərst əˈsɛnt/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
NASA

Examples in Context

  1. Adding or moving bolts may alter the nature of the climb and devalue the efforts of the first ascent.
  2. It prompted the matron to say that she would walk a little way - as far as to the point where the acclivity from the valley began its first steep ascent to the outer world.
  3. The first part of the ascent is not steep.
  4. For a nation that won its first Olympic gold medal in1984, China's athletic ascent, like its economic growth, can only be described with superlatives.
  5. Oil prices first hit $ 100 a barrel in January 2008, before continuing their rapid ascent to peak at $ 147 in July of that year.

Other meanings of FA