DESCENDING

descending

(adjective) coming down or downward

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

descending

present participle of descend

Adjective

descending (not comparable)

(of a sequence) Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element.

Antonym: ascending

(computing) That causes a sequence to follow a descending order.

Antonym: ascending

Noun

descending (plural descendings)

A descent.

Source: Wiktionary

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De*scend"ing, a.

Definition: Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs (Astron.), those through which the planets descent toward the south.

– Descending node (Astron.), that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing southward.

– Descending series (Math.), a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding one; also, a series arranged according to descending powers of a quantity.

DESCEND

De*scend", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Descended; p. pr. & vb. n. Descending.] Etym: [F. descendre, L. descendere, descensum; de- + scandere to climb. See Scan.]

1. To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend. The rain descended, and the floods came. Matt. vii. 25. We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.

2. To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic] [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. Milton.

3. To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Pope.

4. To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.

5. To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.

6. To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.

7. (Anat.)

Definition: To move toward the south, or to the southward.

8. (Mus.)

Definition: To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

De*scend", v. t.

Definition: To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder. But never tears his cheek descended. Byron.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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