Descent
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Descent may refer to:
- Science and mathematics
- Descent (aircraft), the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight
- Descent (category theory) in mathematics
- Kinship and descent in anthropology
- Common descent in biology
- Technology
- The distance that a typeface descends below the baseline in typography
- Media
- Descent (computer game), a series of computer games developed by Parallax Software and later Outrage Entertainment in the mid-to-late-1990s
- Descent: FreeSpace, a computer game series developed by Volition Inc., a successor of Parallax Software. Note that aside from titles, these games are unrelated although an early storyline draft tried to link the two series together. "Freespace" was trademarked, forcing the developers to resort to "Descent: FreeSpace".
- Descent (film), a made-for-tv movie by the Sci Fi Channel
- Descent (novel), first novel (2004) of Sabrina Broadbent, a thinly veiled account of her marriage to Michael Winterbottom
- Descent (Stargate SG-1), season 6 episode 3 of Stargate SG-1
- Descent (TNG episode), a two-part episode (sixth-season finale and seventh-season opener) of Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Descent: Journeys in the Dark, a board game released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2005
- The Descent, a horror film
