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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Signs | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Descending \De*scend"ing\, a. Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. {Descending constellations} [or] {signs} (Astron.), those through which the planets descent toward the south. {Descending node} (Astron.), that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing southward. {Descending series} (Math.), a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding one; also, a series arranged according to descending powers of a quantity. | |
