Descent - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Advance, Affiliation, Array, Articulation, Bank, Birth, Blood, Bloodline, Branch, Breed, Brood, Burn, Burnout

Descent has several meanings:

in anthropology: see Kinship and descent
in biology: see Common descent
in mathematics: see Descent (category theory)
the computer game: Descent
in typography, the distance that a typeface descends below the baseline
in aviation, the part of a flight of an aircraft when the altitude decreases before landing, see descent (aircraft)

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Example Usage of Descent
	SteveUlfelder: To those of us who once respected him as a smart, pigeonhole-proof blogger, Andrew Sullivan's Descent into Palin-uterus madness is very sad.
	SuperiorSomogy: The way back up had better be down - I've already started my Descent into the crevasse.
	imanisawesome: @thequackingc0w Hahaha, okay, maybe we need something a bit more Descent.... Hmmm.

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Descent - Definition and Overview

Example Usage of Descent