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descent (n.)

1.the act of changing your location in a downward direction

2.properties attributable to your ancestry"he comes from good origins"

3.a movement downward

4.the descendants of one individual"his entire lineage has been warriors"

5.a downward slope or bend

6.the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

 
see also

descent (n.)

≠ acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade

 
synonyms

descent (n.)

aggression, ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, blood line, declension, declination, decline, declivity, degradation, downgrade, downslope, extraction, fall, filiation, line, lineage, line of descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, plunge, provenance, stemma, stock

 
phrases

-bilateral descent • line of descent • unilateral descent

-1st Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment (African Descent) • 1st Regiment Alabama Siege Artillery (African Descent) • 2nd Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment (African Descent) • 3rd Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment (African Descent) • 4th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment (African Descent) • A Descent into the Maelstrom • A Slow Descent • Andriyivskyy Descent • Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America • Avon Descent • Bilateral descent • Borychiv Descent • Canadian of English descent • Canadians of Afghan descent • Canadians of Danish descent • Canadians of Dutch descent • Canadians of Finnish descent • Canadians of Laotian descent • Canadians of Norwegian descent • Canadians of Romanian descent • Canadians of Spanish descent • Canadians of Taiwanese descent • Canadians of Welsh descent • Canadians of ethnic Macedonian descent • Common descent • Continuous Descent Approach • Crawler (The Descent) • Dark Descent • Darwin from Descent of Man to Emotions • Descent (Stargate SG-1) • Descent (TNG episode) • Descent (The Outer Limits) • Descent (X-Men episode) • Descent (aircraft) • Descent (category theory) • Descent (computer game) • Descent II • Descent Nicholas I • Descent direction • Descent from Genghis Khan • Descent from antiquity • Descent from the Cross • Descent into Chaos • Descent into the Depths of the Earth • Descent of Angels • Descent of Elizabeth II from Egbert • Descent of Elizabeth II from William I • Descent of Mary • Descent of the Ganges (Mahabalipuram) • Descent to Undermountain • Descent to the underworld • Direct Descent • Energy descent • Filipinos of American descent • Filipinos of Arab descent • Filipinos of Indian descent • Filipinos of Japanese descent • Filipinos of Mexican descent • Filipinos of Spanish descent • Final Descent • First Descent • Gay Men of African Descent • Gradient descent • High descent • Hill Descent Control system • Infinite descent • Italians of Romanian descent • Kinship and descent • List of Canadians of English descent • List of Canadians of Italian descent • List of composers of African descent • List of people of Korean descent • List of people of Polish Jewish descent • List of people of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent • List of people of mixed Chinese and Korean descent • List of people of mixed Chinese and Russian descent • List of people of mixed Japanese and Korean descent • List of people of mixed Japanese and Russian descent • List of people of mixed Korean and Russian descent • Method of steepest descent • Mexicans of Filipino descent • Recursive descent parser • Royal descent • Stochastic gradient descent • The Descent • The Descent (novel) • The Descent 2 • The Descent from the Cross • The Descent of Anansi • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex • Theory of Pashtun descent from Israelites

 
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descent (n.)

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descent (n.)

wdn

descent, extraction, origin

descent (n.)

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descent

descent (n.)

wdn

ancestry, blood, bloodline, blood line, descent, line, lineage, line of descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock

descent (n.)

tid

brae;cant;slope[Classe]

wdn

declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall

descent (n.)

wdn

descent, filiation, lineage, line of descent

 
Merriam-Webster (1913)

DescentDe*scent" (?), n. [F. descente, fr. descendre; like vente, from vendre. See Descend.]
1. The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

2. Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.

The United Provinces . . . ordered public prayer to God, when they feared that the French and English fleets would make a descent upon their coasts. Jortin.

3. Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.

2. Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction. Dryden.

5. (Law) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity. Abbott.

6. Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.

7. That which is descended; descendants; issue.

If care of our descent perplex us most,
Which must be born to certain woe. Milton.

8. A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

No man living is a thousand descents removed from Adam himself. Hooker.

9. Lowest place; extreme downward place. [R.]

And from the extremest upward of thy head,
To the descent and dust below thy foot. Shak. 10. (Mus.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

Syn. -- Declivity; slope; degradation; extraction; lineage; assault; invasion; attack.

 
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Descent

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Descent may refer to:

In film:

  • The Descent, a horror film
  • The Descent 2, the upcoming sequel to the Neil Marshall film, The Descent

In gaming:

  • Descent (computer game), a series of computer games developed by Parallax Software and Outrage Entertainment
  • Descent II, a 3D first-person shooter video game noted for popularizing the use of true 3D rendering technology
  • Descent³, the sequel to Descent II
  • Descent: FreeSpace, a computer game series developed by Volition Inc.
  • Descent: Journeys in the Dark, a board game released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2005

In literature:

  • The Descent (novel), a novel by author Jeff Long

In science:

  • Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology
  • Kinship and descent, one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology

In television:

  • "Descent" (The Outer Limits), the name of an episode of the science fiction tv seriesThe Outer Limits
  • "Descent" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1
  • "Descent" (TNG episode), a two-part episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation

In other fields:

  • Descent (aircraft), the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight
  • Descent (category theory), a very general idea in mathematics, extending the intuitive idea of 'gluing' in topology
  • Descent (font), the distance that a typeface descends below the baseline in typography
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