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descending 音标拼音: [dɪs'ɛndɪŋ] a. 下降的,下行的 下降的,下行的 descending递减的 descending递降 递减 descending adj 1: coming down or downward [ ant: { ascending( a)}] Descending \ De* scend" ing\, a. Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. [ 1913 Webster] { Descending constellations} or { Descending 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Descend \ De* scend"\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Descended}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Descending}.] [ 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. [ 1913 Webster] The rain descended, and the floods came. -- Matt. vii. 25. [ 1913 Webster] We will here descend to matters of later date. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To enter mentally; to retire. [ Poetic] [ 1913 Webster] [ He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. [ 1913 Webster] And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 7. ( Anat.) To move toward the south, or to the southward. [ 1913 Webster] 8. ( Mus.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone. [ 1913 Webster] 64 Moby Thesaurus words for " descending": ascending, axial, back, back- flowing, backward, collapsing, deciduous, declined, declining, declivate, declivitous, declivous, decurrent, descendant, dipping, down, down- reaching, down- trending, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downgrade, downhill, downsinking, downward, drifting, drooping, dropping, falling, flowing, fluent, flying, going, gyrational, gyratory, mounting, on the descendant, on the downgrade, passing, plummeting, plunging, progressive, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, sagging, setting, sideward, sinking, soaring, streaming, submerging, subsiding, tottering, tumbledown, up- trending, upward
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