Look up: Descent

1. Descent
   In music a descent is a passing from a higher to a lower tone.
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2. descent
   A font’s maximum distance below the baseline.
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3. descent
   [n] - the kinship relation between an individual and the individual`s progenitors 2. [n] - a downward slope or bend 3. [n] - a movement downward 4. [n] - the act of changing your location in a downward direction
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4. Descent
   the system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations
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5. descent
   The devolution of an interest in land upon the death of the owner of it intestate to a person or persons by virtue of consanguinity with the deceased. Category: Law
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6. descent
   For a given font, a measure of its maximum distance below the baseline.
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7. Descent
   De·scent' noun [ French descente , from descendre ; like vente , from vendre . See Descend .] 1. The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower. 2. Incursion; sudde...
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8. descent
   Synonym: descensus. ... 2. In obstetrics, the passage of the presenting part of the foetus into and through the birth canal. ... Origin: L. Descensus ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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9. descent
   noun the act of changing your location in a downward direction
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10. descent
    noun a movement downward
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11. descent
    line of descent noun the kinship relation between an individual and the individual`s progenitors
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12. descent
    declivity noun a downward slope or bend
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13. Descent
    • (n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy. • (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction. • (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, ...
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14. descent
    the system of acknowledged social parentage, which varies from society to society, whereby a person may claim kinship ties with another. If no ... [8 related articles]
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15. descent
    
    • a movement downward
    • properties attributable to your ancestry
    • the act of changing your location in a downward direction
    • the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
    • a downward slope
    • the descendants of one individual
    
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16. Descent
    The process in which the fetus's presenting part (head, buttocks, legs, etc) moves downward through the birth canal during a vaginal delivery.
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17. descent
    descent, in anthropology, method of classifying individuals in terms of their various kinship connections. Matrilineal and patrilineal descent refer to the mother's or father's sib (or other group), respectively. Bilateral descent refers to descent derived from both sibs equally. Descent groups are ...
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18. Descent
    Hereditary succession. Descent is the title, whereby a person, upon the death of his ancestor, acquires the estate of the latter, as his heir at law: This manner of acquiring title is directly opposed to that of purchase. It will be proper to consider: 1. What kind of property descends; and, 2. The general rules of descent.
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19. Descent
    n. Inheritance rules that were established by law for cases where a will does not exist that names who should receive the possessions of the deceased. State rules vary and are governed by the law of the state where the deceased lived. The estate my all go to a surviving spouse and down the line from...
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20. Descent
    Descent is the collective noun for a group of woodpeckers.
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21. descent
    Type: Term Pronunciation: dē-sent′ Definitions: 1. In obstetrics, the passage of the presenting part of the fetus into and through the birth canal. Synonyms: descensus
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22. Descent
    Coming back down out of the clouds.
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23. Descent
    `Descent` may refer to: In `genealogy` and `inheritance`: In `mathematics`: `Other uses`: As a proper name: In `film`: In `gaming`: :* Descent II, sequel to Descent :* Descent 3, sequel to Descent II In `literature`: In `television`: See also:
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24. Descent
    (video game) `Descent` is a 3D first-person shooter video game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Entertainment Corp. in 1995. The game features six degrees of freedom gameplay and garnered several expansion packs. It spawned two direct sequels: Descent II ...
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25. Descent
    (category theory) In mathematics, the idea of `descent` has come to stand for a very general idea, extending the intuitive idea of `gluing` in topology. Since the topologists` glue is actually the use of equivalence relations on topological spaces, the theory starts with some ideas on identif...
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