Descending
De·scend·ing
Descending
a.
- Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.
Phrases & Compounds
- Descending constellations
- those through which the planets descent toward the south.
- Descending node
- that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing southward.
- Descending series
- a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding one; also, a series arranged according to descending powers of a quantity.