ascender
Noun

ascender (plural ascenders)

  1. (typography, graphology) The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 1,
      Catherine had a paperback called Graphology: The Mind in the Hand, which gave her all sorts of warnings about people’s tendencies and repressions (“Artist or Madman?” “Pet or Brute?”). “It's those enormous ascenders, darling,” she said: “I see a lot of ego.”
  2. (climbing) a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope; ascendeur.
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