Look up descent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Descent may refer to: Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology Kinship, one of the major concepts...

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

Gradient descent is a method for unconstrained mathematical optimization. It is a first-order iterative algorithm for finding a local minimum of a differentiable...

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

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...

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...

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

In mathematics, the idea of descent extends the intuitive idea of 'gluing' in topology. Since the topologists' glue is the use of equivalence relations...

Descent to Undermountain is a role-playing video game developed and published by Interplay in 1998. Based on the Dungeons & Dragons setting of Undermountain...

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...

This is the family tree of the British royal family, from James I (who united the crowns of England and Scotland) to the present monarch, Charles III....

"the descent of Christ into Hell" or Hades) is the period of time between the Crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection. In triumphant descent, Christ...

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

Descent from Genghis Khan in East Asia is well documented by Chinese sources. His descent in West Asia and Europe was documented through the 14th century...

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...

Hill descent control (HDC, or hill mode descent control) is a driver-assistance system allowing for a controlled hill descent in rough terrain without...

aeronautics, a descent is any time period during air travel where an aircraft decreases altitude, and is the opposite of an ascent or climb. Descents are part...

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a 2010 survival horror adventure game developed and published by Frictional Games. It was released in 2010 for Microsoft...

is a system of determining descent groups in which one belongs to one's father's or mother's line, whereby one's descent is traced either exclusively...

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

Continuous descent approach (CDA), also known as optimized profile descent (OPD), is a method by which aircraft approach airports prior to landing. It...

The Descent of Mary (Γεννα Μαριας or "Genna Marias") is a minor work of the New Testament apocrypha which is only known through mention in the Panarion...

"A Descent into the Maelström" is an 1841 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and...

In computer science, a recursive descent parser is a kind of top-down parser built from a set of mutually recursive procedures (or a non-recursive equivalent)...

Descent into Madness may refer to: "Descent into Madness", an episode of Voltron: The Third Dimension "Descent into Madness", a song by Evile from the...

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

as gradient descent and multiplicative weights. Mirror descent was originally proposed by Nemirovski and Yudin in 1983. In gradient descent with the sequence...

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

Descent into Chaos may refer to: Descent into Chaos (Nightrage album), 2005 Descent into Chaos (Legion of the Damned album), 2011 Descent into Chaos:...

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...