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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.
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