Descent

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)

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