Translations for „descent“ in the English » Chinese Dictionary

descent [dıˈsent] N

1. descent:

descent

下降 xiàjiàng

descent

斜坡 xiépō

a vertical descent

垂直下降

2. descent:

descent

出身 chūshēn

descent

血统 xuètǒng

an American of Chinese descent

华裔美国人

3. descent (on, upon):

descent

袭击 xíjī

descent

突然拜访 tūrán bàifǎng

Usage examples with descent

a vertical descent

垂直下降

an American of Chinese descent

华裔美国人

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Figure eights allow fast but controlled descent on a rope.

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Its descent has not been traced from that time until the end of the 18th century.

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In this system, relatives are sorted according to their descent and their gender.

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The jetliner hit the ground at, with a descent rate of.

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The whole descent took 13 minutes and 45 seconds and set a world record for the highest parachute jump.

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This generality is used in preconditioned gradient descent methods.

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