A lineal or direct descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in the direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc...

Direct Descent (1980) is a short science fiction novel by American writer Frank Herbert. It was based on his short story "Pack Rat Planet" published in...

The Descent is a 2005 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film stars actresses Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid...

cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language. Because language...

and he inherited his titles and Mackenzie descent through her. (Even she only claims a Mackenzie descent as a 4th great-granddaughter of George Mackenzie...

Descent is a first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995 for MS-DOS, and later for Macintosh...

Descent 3 (stylized as Descent³) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Outrage Entertainment and published by Interplay Entertainment. It was...

The Descent Part 2 is a 2009 British adventure horror film and sequel to the 2005 horror film The Descent. It was directed by Jon Harris from a screenplay...

or that of the new Commonwealth. Persons classified as being of African descent have nevertheless been a recognizable component of British society since...

Common descent is a concept in evolutionary biology applicable when one species is the ancestor of two or more species later in time. According to modern...

number of related concepts and terms in the study of kinship, such as descent, descent group, lineage, affinity/affine, consanguinity/cognate and fictive...

fraternal organization established in North America in 1834. It claims direct descent from the colonial era Sons of Liberty. Their rituals and regalia are...

which claimed legitimacy. Several late rulers of the Craiovești claimed direct descent from the House after its eventual demise, including Neagoe Basarab,...

in modern-day Pakistan and India. Bhatti and his descendants claim direct descent from the Hindu mythological Yaduvanshi lineage of the Lunar dynasty...

Stochastic gradient descent (often abbreviated SGD) is an iterative method for optimizing an objective function with suitable smoothness properties (e...

the Golden Dawn (1888–1908), the modern Order does not have or claim direct descent or institutional lineage from the original Order or from the Societas...

Akamatsu clan (赤松氏, Akamatsu-shi) is a Japanese samurai family of direct descent from Minamoto no Morifusa of the Murakami-Genji (Minamoto clan). They...

Cherokee descent, "being of Cherokee descent", or "being a Cherokee descendant" are all terms for individuals with some degree of documented Cherokee...

The Descent is a 1999 science fiction/horror novel by American author Jeff Long. It describes the discovery and exploration of an extensive labyrinth...

released under the title Descent Maximum. It is the second installment in the Descent video game series and the sequel to Descent. The player controls a...

The Last Descent is a 2016 American religious biographical survival drama film co-written and directed by Isaac Halasima, and is his first feature-length...

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary...

Descent is a 2007 American thriller film directed by Talia Lugacy and produced by and starring Rosario Dawson. It is best described as a 'rape revenge'...

died childless, their deaths would have brought an end to Æthelweard's direct descent. art. Ealhswith, in K.J. Panton, Historical Dictionary of the British...

βράχιστος χρόνος (brákhistos khrónos) 'shortest time'), or curve of fastest descent, is the one lying on the plane between a point A and a lower point B, where...

In European genealogy, a descent from antiquity (DFA or DfA) is a proven unbroken line of descent between specific individuals from ancient history and...

conflicts with the invading Muslim tribes. The Phulkian dynasty claimed direct descent from Rawal Jaisal Singh, the Bhati Rajput founder of the Kingdom of...

as the legitimate successor of Majapahit, since Raden Patah claimed direct descent from King Kertabhumi, who had died during the Girindrawardana invasion...

attributed to Genghis Khan. A Chingisid prince was one who could trace direct descent from Genghis Khan in the male line, and who could therefore claim high...

Line of Descent is a 2019 Indian crime drama film written and directed by Rohit Karn Batra (in his directorial debut). The film stars Ronit Roy, Neeraj...