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Descent may refer to:
As a noun
Genealogy and inheritance
- Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology
- Kinship, one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology
- Pedigree chart or family tree
- Ancestry
- Lineal descendant
- Heritage
- Royal descent - lineal descent from a monarch
- Phylogenetics
- Inheritance (law and property)
Mathematics
- Infinite descent, a method going back to Fermat to solve Diophantine equations
- Descent (mathematics), 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
- Descents in permutations, a classical permutation statistic in combinatorics
Other uses
- Descent (aeronautics), the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight
- Descent (font), the distance that a typeface descends below the baseline in typography
- Katabasis
As a proper name
Film
- The Descent, a 2005 horror film
- The Descent Part 2, the 2009 sequel to the 2005 film
- Descent (2007 film), a thriller film starring Rosario Dawson
- Descent (2017 film), a Nigerian film
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 1998 space combat simulation computer game
- Descent: Journeys in the Dark, a 2005 board game by Fantasy Flight Games
- Dragon Age: Inquisition – The Descent, a 2015 downloadable content pack for Dragon Age: Inquisition
Literature
- Descent: An Irresistible Tragicomedy of Everyday Life, a 2004 novel by Sabrina Broadbent
- The Descent (novel), by Jeff Long
- Descent (magazine), a magazine about caving
- Descent (journal), a genealogy journal published by the Society of Australian Genealogists
Music
- Descent, an album by the band This Burning Effigy
- "Descent" (song), a song by Fear Factory from Obsolete
- "Descent", a song by Godflesh from Us and Them
- "Descent", a song by Knut from Bastardiser
- "Descent", a song by Neurosis from Times of Grace
- "A Descent", a song by Born of Osiris from A Higher Place
- "The Descent", a song by Insomnium from Shadows of the Dying Sun (bonus track)
- "The Descent", a song by Polaris from The Death of Me
Television
- "Descent" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a two-part 1993 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
- "Descent" (The Outer Limits), a 1999 episode of The Outer Limits
- "Descent" (Stargate SG-1), a 2002 episode of Stargate SG-1
- "The Descent" (The Vampire Diaries), a 2011 episode of The Vampire Diaries
- "Descent", a 2013 episode of NCIS: Los Angeles
See also
- Dissent (homophone)
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