Usually means: Movement from higher to lower.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. descent: Merriam-Webster
  2. descent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. descent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. descent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. descent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Descent, descent: Wordnik
  7. descent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. descent: Wiktionary
  9. descent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. descent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. descent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. descent: Dictionary.com
  13. descent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Descent (aeronautics), Descent (aircraft), Descent (category theory), Descent (computer game), Descent (disambiguation), Descent (game), Descent (magazine), Descent (mathematics), Descent (song), Descent (upcoming video game), Descent (video game), Descent, The Descent (The Vampire Diaries), The Descent (album), The Descent (film), The Descent (novel), The Descent, The descent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Descent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. descent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. descent: Rhymezone
  18. descent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. descent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. descent: FreeDictionary.org
  21. descent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. descent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. descent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. descent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. descent: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. descent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. descent: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Descent (episode), Descent (movie), descent: Legal dictionary
  9. Descent (episode), Descent (movie), descent: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Descent: Game Dictionary
  2. Descent (episode), Descent (font), Descent (movie), descent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. descent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Descent (episode), Descent (movie), descent: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Descent, descent: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See descenting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An instance of descending; act of coming down.
noun:  A way down.
noun:  A sloping passage or incline.
noun:  Lineage or hereditary derivation.
noun:  A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
noun:  A falling upon or invasion.
noun:  (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing.

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