descending
descending is a polysyllabic word with 3 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, descending is hyphenated as:
Definitions ofdescending
- To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.
Example: "The rain descended, and the floods came."
- To enter mentally; to retire.
- (with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
Example: "And on the suitors let thy wrath descend."
- To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself
Example: "he descended from his high estate"
- To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.
- To come down, as from a source, original, or stock
- To be derived (from)
- To proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.
Example: "A crown descends to the heir."
- To move toward the south, or to the southward.
- To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
- To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
Example: "they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder"
- A descent.
Example: "continual ascendings and descendings"
- (of a sequence) Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element.
Example: "Please arrange these numbers in a descending order."
- That causes a sequence to follow a descending order.
Example: "We used a descending sort."
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