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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DESCENDING

DESCENDING De *scend "ing, a.

Defn: 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.

DESCENDINGLY

DESCENDINGLY De *scend "ing *ly, adv.

Defn: In a descending manner.

New American Oxford Dictionary

descending colon

de scend ing co lon ▶noun Anatomy the part of the large intestine that passes downward on the left side of the abdomen toward the rectum.

Oxford Dictionary

descending colon

des ¦cend |ing colon ▶noun Anatomy the part of the large intestine which passes downwards on the left side of the abdomen towards the rectum.

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

descending

de sc é nd ing 形容詞〖名詞の前で〗下がってゆく, 下降的な (↔ascending )▸ in descending order (数値レベルなどが )上から下の順序で, 降順で