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de·scend·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. descending(a)adjective

    coming down or downward

Wikipedia

  1. descending

    The discography of the experimental music group Psychic TV consists of over 100 full-length albums, over 15 compilation albums and over 30 singles and EPs.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Descending

    of Descend

  2. Descendingadjective

    of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards

Freebase

  1. Descending

    Descending is a live album by Psychic TV. The album was recorded live in Rouen, France at the "Exo 7" on June 01, 1984. Initial copies came with an oversized booklet. Later copies came in a jewel-case with standard booklet and were limited to 5000 numbered copies.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of descending in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of descending in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of descending in a Sentence

  1. Buzz Aldrin:

    We landed very, very close to where we were supposed to be, and there’s nothing more comforting to be descending down, and pretty soon the pressure on the outside is more than the pressure on the inside and we began to smell salt air, then we knew we were home.

  2. Ekaterina Schulmann:

    [ The government ] is scared to make people angry, scared to leave people without bread, which will make them even angrier, people have seen a constant decline in income since 2014, support for the president has been descending since 2018. It is risky to push people even further.

  3. Philo Judaeus:

    The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

  4. Governor Andrew Cuomo:

    Our behavior affects the number of cases, they are not descending on us from heaven.

  5. Artyom Nazarov:

    To live in a country that is descending into an abyss of absurdity and fear is much more frightening than what happened to me or could happen there (on Sunday).

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