Generally, an ascension is the act of ascending, usually to a significantly higher personal state, as the ascension of a king to the throne. A physical act of ascending, such as in mountain climbing is more commonly called an ascent.

*In Christianity the Ascension is one of the great feasts in the liturgical calendar and refers to the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven forty days after his resurrection from the dead.
*The term is also used to refer to the disappearances into heaven of Enoch, Elijah, and Muhammad.
*In Theosophy, and some New Age groups, ascension is a process of spiritual enlightenment whereby any person may escape the physical plane of existence to become an ascended master.
*In astronomy, right ascension is used to describe positions in the sky.
*Ascension is a mountain climbing term.
*Ascension Island is an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean, it is so named because it was first recorded on Ascension Day 1503.
*Ascension Parish is a parish in Louisiana. (In that state a parish is equivalent to a county.)
*Ascension (Stargate) is a process in the Stargate universe where humans become become noncorporeal god-like entities, where they exisit on a higher plane of existence. The process can either be evolutionary, spiritual, or technological. (When one technologicaly ascends he uses the DNA Resequencer. The Ancients and the Ori are the only two known races to have ascended. Ascension is also the title of a Stargate SG-1 episode.
*Mage: The Ascension is a role-playing game.
*Ascension (album) is an album by John Coltrane.
*"Ascension" is the term used to describe winning in the roguelike game NetHack.
*"Ascension" is also the term used for "winning" the final quest of the game Kingdom of Loathing.
*Ascension (comic) is a comic book series written by David Finch and published by Top Cow Productions.
*Ascension, Prince Edward Island is the name of a small Canadian community within the western section of Prince Edward Island, located near Tignish.
*Ascension (Halo 2) is the name of a multiplayer map on the popular Halo 2 video game.
*Ascension is an alias of trance music DJs Ricky Simmons and Stephen Jones, who also record as Lustral, Space Brothers, Oxygen and Chakra.
*Ascension (Game) is an upcoming computer game, styled after the Tribes series of games, created (in part) by the RenWerX Team on the Torque Shader Engine.
*In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the concept of "Ascension" is a victory condition in the game where all humans on the planet merge themselves with planet to achieve higher awareness and eternal life.