descent  /dɪs'ɛnt/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  descent
  降落,家系,侵襲,血統

資料來源(2): Network Terminology [netterm]

  descent
  下降

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Descent \De*scent"\, n. [F. descente, fr. descendre; like vente,
     from vendre. See {Descend}.]
     1. The act of descending, or passing downward; change of
        place from higher to lower.
  
     2. Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion
        from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a
        descent upon the enemy.
  
              The United Provinces . . . ordered public prayer to
              God, when they feared that the French and English
              fleets would make a descent upon their coasts.
                                                    --Jortin.
  
     3. Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station,
        virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from
        a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less
        important, from the better to the worse, etc.
  
     2. Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation;
        lineage; birth; extraction. --Dryden.
  
     5. (Law) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually,
        but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to
        inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity. --Abbott.
  
     6. Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or
        sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
  
     7. That which is descended; descendants; issue.
  
              If care of our descent perplex us most, Which must
              be born to certain woe.               --Milton.
  
     8. A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a
        degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
  
              No man living is a thousand descents removed from
              Adam himself.                         --Hooker.
  
     9. Lowest place; extreme downward place. [R.]
  
              And from the extremest upward of thy head, To the
              descent and dust below thy foot.      --Shak.
  
     10. (Mus.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
  
     Syn: Declivity; slope; degradation; extraction; lineage;
          assault; invasion; attack.

資料來源(4): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  descent
       n 1: a movement downward
       2: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from
          good origins" [syn: {origin}, {extraction}]
       3: the act of changing your location in a downward direction
       4: the kinship relation between an individual and the
          individual's progenitors [syn: {line of descent}, {lineage},
           {filiation}]
       5: a downward slope or bend [syn: {declivity}, {fall}, {decline},
           {declination}, {declension}, {downslope}] [ant: {ascent}]
       6: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has
          been warriors" [syn: {lineage}, {line}, {line of descent},
           {bloodline}, {blood line}, {blood}, {pedigree}, {ancestry},
           {origin}, {parentage}, {stemma}, {stock}]