- Look up
descent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Descent may
refer to:
Common descent,
concept in
evolutionary biology Kinship, one of the
major concepts...
- The
Descent is a 2005
British horror film
written and
directed by Neil Marshall. The film
stars actresses Shauna Macdonald,
Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid...
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Gradient descent is a
method for
unconstrained mathematical optimization. It is a first-order
iterative algorithm for
finding a
local minimum of a differentiable...
- aeronautics, a
descent is any time
period during air
travel where an
aircraft decreases altitude, and is the
opposite of an
ascent or climb.
Descents are part...
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Descent 3 (stylized as
Descent³) is a first-person
shooter video game
developed by
Outrage Entertainment and
published by
Interplay Entertainment. It was...
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Common descent is a
concept in
evolutionary biology applicable when one
species is the
ancestor of two or more
species later in time.
According to modern...
- In mathematics, the idea of
descent extends the
intuitive idea of 'gluing' in topology.
Since the topologists' glue is the use of
equivalence relations...
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Bilateral descent is a
system of
family lineage in
which the
relatives on the mother's side and father's side are
equally important for
emotional ties...
- The Last
Descent is a 2016
American biographical survival drama film co-written and
directed by
Isaac Halasima, and is his
first feature-length film....
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Descent is a first-person
shooter (FPS) game
developed by
Parallax Software and
released by
Interplay Productions in 1995 for MS-DOS, and
later for Macintosh...