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a movement downward origin: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" the act of changing your location in a downward direction the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors a downward slope or bend lineage: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
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Descent is a 3D first-person shooter computer game noted for popularizing the use of portal rendering technology and providing the player with six full degrees of freedom (often abbreviated "6DOF") to move and to look around. Descent spawned two direct sequels (Descent II and Descent?, and a spin-off called '', an arcade space sim. Descent'' was developed by Parallax Software and released in 1995. ...
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In mathematics, the idea of descent has come to stand for a very general idea, extending the intuitive idea of 'gluing' in topology. Since the topologists' glue is actually the use of equivalence relations on topological spaces, the theory starts with some ideas on identification. ...
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kinship principle that traces relationships through parent-child links.
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going downward, as in: His descent from the airplane was much slower after he pulled the cord on his parachute.
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