15 Now to Starbucks's CEO: Pay Your Employees $15 an Hour! On Saturday, April 12, New York City workers and 15 Now (15now.org) activists gathered on the Fulton Mall in Brooklyn to participate in a national day of action against Starbucks Corporation.
ascent - an upward slope or grade (as in a road); the car couldn't make it up the rise. acclivity, climb, upgrade, raise, rise. incline, slope, side - an elevated geological formation; he climbed the steep slope; the house was built on the side of a mountain.
Definition of gradient. 1  1a : the rate of regular or graded (see 2grade transitive 2) ascent or descent : inclinationb : a part sloping upward or downward. 2  2 : change in the value of a quantity (as temperature, pressure, or concentration) with change in a given variable and especially per unit distance in a specified direction.