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descent:
- origen; procedencia; descendencia; derivación; descenso; bajada; declive; vástagos; ángulo del declive
Wiktionary:
- descent → descenso, origen, ascendencia, bajada
- descent → caída, disminución, descenso, bajada, descendencia, viento descendente, corriente descendente, origen, ascendencia, baja, decadencia, adversidad

English

Detailed Translations for descent from English to Spanish

descent:

descent [the ~] nom

the descent (origin; ancestry; provenance; source; parentage; birth)
el origen; la procedencia; la descendencia; la derivación
- origen [el ~] nom
- procedencia [la ~] nom
- descendencia [la ~] nom
- derivación [la ~] nom
the descent (landing; touchdown)
el descenso; la bajada; la declive
- descenso [el ~] nom
- bajada [la ~] nom
- declive [la ~] nom
the descent (lineage)
el vástagos
- vástagos [el ~] nom
the descent (inclination; incline; ramp; slope; slip)
el ángulo del declive
- ángulo del declive [el ~] nom

Translation Matrix for descent:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
bajada	descent; landing; touchdown	diminishing; fall; landing; lessening
declive	descent; landing; touchdown	abatement; bank; inclination; incline; precipice; slope; steep inclination; steepness; talus
derivación	ancestry; birth; descent; origin; parentage; provenance; source	river source; source; spring
descendencia	ancestry; birth; descent; origin; parentage; provenance; source	brood; children; descendant; descendants; descendent; offspring; progeny; successors
descenso	descent; landing; touchdown	degradation; demotion; diminishing; disrating; fall; landing; lessening
origen	ancestry; birth; descent; origin; parentage; provenance; source	bringing about; causing; data source; effect; origin; river source; roots; source; source provider; spring
procedencia	ancestry; birth; descent; origin; parentage; provenance; source	birth; childbirth; confinement; delivery
vástagos	descent; lineage
ángulo del declive	descent; inclination; incline; ramp; slip; slope
-	declension; declination; decline; declivity; downslope; extraction; fall; filiation; line of descent; lineage; origin
Other	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	downhill slope; way down

Synonyms for "descent":

change of location; travel
origin; extraction; ancestry; lineage; derivation; filiation
motion; movement; move
line of descent; lineage; filiation; kinship; family relationship; relationship
declivity; fall; decline; declination; declension; downslope; slope; incline; side
line; bloodline; blood line; blood; pedigree; ancestry; parentage; stemma; stock; genealogy; family tree

Antonyms for "descent":

ascent

Related Definitions for "descent":

the act of changing your location in a downward direction¹
properties attributable to your ancestry¹
a movement downward¹
a downward slope or bend¹
the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors¹

Wiktionary Translations for descent:

descent

noun

drop to a lower status or condition
- descent → descenso
lineage or hereditary derivation
- descent → origen; ascendencia
sloping passage or incline
- descent → bajada
instance of descending
- descent → descenso
way down
- descent → bajada

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• descent	→ caída; disminución; descenso; bajada	↔ daling — het dalen, het lager worden
• descent	→ descendencia	↔ afstamming — de genetische voorgescheidenis van een individu, volk of soort
• descent	→ viento descendente; corriente descendente	↔ Abwind — Meteorologie:
• descent	→ descenso; bajada	↔ Abstieg — das Herunterklettern aus der Höhe in tiefere Bereiche
• descent	→ origen; ascendencia	↔ Abstammung — Biologie: die Herkunft von Organismen bezüglich der evolutionären Stammesentwicklung und die Weitergabe von Erbanlagen
• descent	→ descenso	↔ Abfahrt — die Fahrt nach unten, die Fahrt herab oder hinab
• descent	→ baja; decadencia; adversidad	↔ abaissement — action d’abaisser, de s’abaisser, ou résultat de cette action.

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