descent meaning
EN
[dɪˈsɛnt] 
US WDescent
- Descent may refer to:
- NounPLdescentsPREdés-SUF-escent
- An instance of descending.
- We climbed the mountain with difficulty, but the descent was easier.
- A way down.
- We had difficulty in finding the correct descent.
- A sloping passage or incline.
- The descent into the cavern was wet and slippery.
- Lineage or hereditary derivation.
- Our guide was of Welsh descent.
- A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
- After that, the holiday went into a steep descent.
- (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).
- An instance of descending.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Interestingly, unlike the vanilla SGD algorithm, the stochastic normalized gradient descent algorithm provably requires a minimal minibatch size..
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of descent in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en descents
- fr descente
- fr descentes
- en descent vehicle
- en descent vehicles
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "descent" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.