Descent may refer to: As a noun Genealogy and inheritance Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology Kinship, one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology Pedigree chart or family tree Ancestry Lineal descendant Heritage Royal descent - lineal descent from a monarch Phylogenetics Tree diagram (disambiguation) Inheritance (law and property) Mathematics Infinite descent, a method going back to Fermat to solve Diophantine equations Descent (mathematics), an idea extending the notion of "gluing" in topology Hadamard's method of descent, a technique for solving partial differential equations Gradient descent, a first-order optimization algorithm going back to Newton Descents in permutations, a classical permutation statistic in combinatorics Other uses Descent (aeronautics), the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight Descent (font), the distance that a typeface descends below the baseline in typography Katabasis As a proper name Film The Descent, a 2005 horror film The Descent Part 2, the 2009 sequel to the 2005 film Descent (2007 film), a thriller film starring Rosario Dawson Descent (2017 film), a Nigerian film Gaming Descent (video game), first in a series from Interplay Entertainment and Parallax Software Descent II, sequel to Descent Descent 3, sequel to Descent II Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War, a 1998 space combat simulation computer game Descent: Journeys in the Dark, a 2005 board game by Fantasy Flight Games Dragon Age: Inquisition – The Descent, a 2015 downloadable content pack for Dragon Age: Inquisition Literature Descent: An Irresistible Tragicomedy of Everyday Life, a 2004 novel by Sabrina Broadbent The Descent (novel), by Jeff Long Descent (magazine), a magazine about caving Descent (journal), a genealogy journal published by the Society of Australian Genealogists Music Descent, an album by the band This Burning Effigy "Descent" (song), a song by Fear Factory from Obsolete "Descent", a song by Godflesh from Us and Them "Descent", a song by Knut from Bastardiser "Descent", a song by Neurosis from Times of Grace "A Descent", a song by Born of Osiris from A Higher Place "The Descent", a song by Polaris from The Death of Me Television "Descent" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a two-part 1993 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation "Descent" (The Outer Limits), a 1999 episode of The Outer Limits "Descent" (Stargate SG-1), a 2002 episode of Stargate SG-1 "The Descent" (The Vampire Diaries), a 2011 episode of The Vampire Diaries "Descent", a 2013 episode of NCIS: Los Angeles See also Dissent (homophone)