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Descent

Descent has several meanings:

• in anthropology: see Kinship and descent
• in biology: see Common descent
• in mathematics: see Descent (category theory)
• The horror film, The Descent
• the computer game, Descent
• in typography, the distance that a typeface descends below the baseline
• in aviation, a descent is a decrease in altitude of an aircraft during flight
• an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation