Usually means: Moving or sloping downward progressively.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. descending: Merriam-Webster
  2. descending: Collins English Dictionary
  3. descending: Vocabulary.com
  4. Descending, descending: Wordnik
  5. descending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. descending: Wiktionary
  7. descending: Dictionary.com
  8. descending: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Descending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. descending: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Descending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. descending: FreeDictionary.org
  13. descending: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. descending: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. descending: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. descending: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. descending: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. descending: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. descending: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Descending: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. descending: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (descending)

▸ adjective:  Moving or sloping downwards.
▸ adjective:  Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element. (of a sequence)
▸ adjective:  (computing) Causing a sequence to follow a descending order.
▸ adjective:  (music) Becoming lower in pitch.
▸ noun:  A descent.

Similar:
declivitous, downhill, downward, degressive, down, dropping, raining, drizzling, Falling, descendant, more...

Opposite:
ascending, rising, climbing, soaring, mounting

Types:
stairs, elevator, escalator, lift, stairlift, staircase, ladder, ramp, more...

Phrases:
descending into, Descending aorta, descending colon, descending on, descending upon, more...

Adjectives:
own, orpheus, ascending, superficial, christ, red, plain, left, steep, select, prone

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Similar:
declivitous, downhill, downward, degressive, down, dropping, raining, drizzling, Falling, descendant, more...

Opposite:
ascending, rising, climbing, soaring, mounting

Types:
stairs, elevator, escalator, lift, stairlift, staircase, ladder, ramp, more...

Phrases:
descending into, Descending aorta, descending colon, descending on, descending upon, descending limb, descending branch, descending series, descending node, descending pathway, descending triangle, more...

Adjectives:
own, orpheus, ascending, superficial, christ, red, plain, left, steep, select, prone

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     graphite,     smoke, more...



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