Descending meaning : To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc. To enter mentally; to retire. (with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence. To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered. To come down, as from a source, original, or stock To be derived (from) To proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance. To move toward the south, or to the southward. To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone. To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of A descent. (of a sequence) Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element. That causes a sequence to follow a descending order.