Descent
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Descent has several meanings:
- in anthropology: see Kinship and descent
- in biology: see Common descent
- in mathematics: see Descent (category theory)
- the computer game: Descent
- in typography, the distance that a typeface descends below the baseline
- in aviation, the part of a flight of an aircraft when the altitude decreases before landing, see descent (aircraft)
- an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation