descent

[dɪˈsent]

Definition:
1. A movement downward.
2. Properties attributable to your ancestry.
3. The act of changing your location in a downward direction.
4. The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors.
5. A downward slope or bend.

Use 'descent' in a sentence:

1. Frost's Descent, the 18th solar term of the year, is the last solar term of autumn, during which time the weather becomes much colder than before and frost begins to appear.
2. A class of descent methods based on conjugate gradient method.
3. Transient Stability Parallel Algorithm in Power System Based on Newton Descent Method.
4. The film is a powerful study of a woman's descent into insanity.
5. The plane began its descent to Heathrow.
6. What could have been considered the beginning of a descent is now a potential turning point—the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.
7. The apple is one kind of recommended fruit during Frost's Descent.
8. The descent simulation ends.
9. A few Notes of the Descent Function for the General Constrained Optimization.
10. If you're not cooked from the climb, you can make up time on the descent.
11. Their mother, Marie Jillisch, was of Irish descent, born in Scotland.
12. The descent of the mountain took two hours.
13. Most Mongolians are Mongol in descent.
14. The delta rule is based on the idea of gradient descent.
15. Many years later, he published his other great work, The Descent of Man.
16. They were no longer a series of small bands but lived in a large community with more elaborate social organization, probably grouped into clans of people of common descent.
17. Britain has always been the principal source—ninety percent of Australians are of British descent, and Britain has provided one million migrants since the Second World War.
18. The method has descent directions whatever line search is used.
19. We show that the hybrid method is also a descent method.
20. He traces his line of descent from the Stuart kings.
21. Study on Adaptive Fuzzy Control System Based on Gradient Descent Learning Algorithm.
22. There is also a small group of Finnish descent.
23. In computer terms, this rule is also known as recursive tree descent.
24. Sixteen of the youngsters set off for help, but during the descent three collapsed in the cold and rain.
25. The Application of the Steepest Descent Method in the Image Reconstruction.
26. So they were Greek speaking, maybe people of Greek descent.
27. The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps.
28. I'm Canadian of East Indian descent.
29. But in the case of balloons, the descent sometimes comes sooner than expected.
30. A Level Value Descent Method for Unconstrained Global Optimization Problems.
31. She is of German descent.
32. All the contributors were of African descent.
33. We watched anxiously during her descent from the tree.
34. More than three million Americans are of Arab descent.
35. It is clearly modeled on Odysseus' descent to Hades in the Odyssey.
36. Some worry about a descent to Italian standards.
37. One hundred years ago, "Colored" was the typical way of referring to Americans of African descent.
38. What could have been considered the beginning of a descent is now a potential turning point — the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.
39. Adaptive filter based on steepest descent method for fundamental extraction.
40. TORUK comes out of the sun, beating its huge wings to slow its descent.
41. The system of matrilineal clans was maintained throughout this period, even though some clans merged to form larger groups while others divided into smaller descent groups.
42. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the first of Marvel's superhero blockbusters to have an Asian lead character, and all of its main actors – including Awkwafina, Michelle Yeoh, Tony Leung, and Simu Liu as Shang-Chi himself – are Asian or of Asian descent.
43. An abrupt descent suddenly appeared before him.
44. You are to remember that I knew no more of my descent than any cadger's dog.
45. Nonlinear Gradient Descent Algorithm Theories and Its Analysis for the Stability of Hopfield Network.
46. It can take as long as eight days to rig up rope ladders and to establish supply bases before a descent can be made into a very deep cave.
47. Franz Kafka once said: "Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyssof oneself."
48. On the descents, cyclists spin past cars, freewheeling downhill at tremendous speed.
49. When entering a trail or starting a descent, yield to other skiers.
50. She drove up a steep grade and then began the long descent into the desert.
51. There is a gradual descent to the sea.
52. The only lasting solution lies in a political settlement. Without it, their descent into chaos will be guaranteed.