Descender : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Descender	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Descender
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
descender n someone who descends a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Descender \De*scend"er\, n. One who descends.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
descender A lowercase letter that extends below the base line, such as "g", "j", or "p". Also used to denote the part of the letter extending below the base line. Compare {ascender}. (1998-03-27)