an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
An ascent or upward slope of the earth, as the side of a hill.
An upward slope.
n. [Latin] A slope or inclination of the earth ; rising ground ; ascent.
The steepness or slope of a line inclining to the horizon, reckoned upwards, as, the ascent of a hill is the acclivity, the descent is the declivity.