Descent

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Descent may refer to:

• Genealogy
  • Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology
  • Kinship and descent, one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology
  • Pedigree
  • Ancestry
  • Heritage
  • Phylogenetics
  • Tree diagram (disambiguation)
• Descent (aircraft), the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight
• Descent (font), the distance that a typeface descends below the baseline in typography
• Mathematics
  • Infinite descent (number theory), a method going back to Fermat to solve Diophantine equations
  • Descent (category theory), an idea extending the notion of 'gluing' in topology
  • Hadamard's method of descent, a technique for solving partial differential equations
  • Gradient descent, a first-order optimization algorithm going back to Newton

As a proper name

In film:

• The Descent, a 2005 horror film
  • The Descent Part 2, the 2009 sequel to the 2005 film
• Descent (2007 film), a thriller starring Rosario Dawson
• Descent (2005 film), a television film on the Sci-Fi Channel

In gaming:

• Descent (video game), first in a series from Interplay Entertainment and Parallax Software

• Descent II, sequel to Descent
• Descent 3, sequel to Descent II

• Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War, a computer game by Volition Inc
• Descent: Journeys in the Dark, a 2005 board game by Fantasy Flight Games

In literature:

• The Descent (novel), by Jeff Long

In television:

• "Descent" (The Outer Limits), an episode of the science fiction television series The Outer Limits
• "Descent" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1
• "Descent" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a two-part episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Homophone:

• Dissent

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