单词 Collocations with descent 释义

Collocations withdescent

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angle of descentOn landing, the glidepath—that is, the angle of descent to the ground—must be not less than three degrees.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0common descentMedievalists would argue that ethnic identities are constructed primarily through the invention of legends of common descent, often articulated in contexts of political conflict.From theCambridge English Corpuscontrolled descentThis facility enables a pilot to use the lift generated by the free rotation of the main rotors to make a controlled descent and landing.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0descent groupIn doing so, she demonstrated that the descent group was rarely equivalent to the residential group.From theCambridge English Corpusfinal descentI understand that aircraft must reduce their height to 3,000 ft 10 miles from the runway in order to establish a final descent path.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0gradient descentA gradient descent, whatever the starting point, computes in real-time the least dangerous trajectory.From theCambridge English Corpusmatrilineal descentIn common with the two study societies, they have a matrilineal descent system which is here divided into matri-moieties, each comprising several clans.From theCambridge English Corpuspatrilineal descentThese included belonging to patrilineal descent groups which under the monarchical order were classified and hierarchised according to an elaborate system.From theCambridge English Corpusrapid descentThe plane landed with no incident and only one minor injury was recorded in someone's inner ear due to the rapid descent.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.slow descentThis slow descent is partially obscured by the noisiness of the computed statistics.From theCambridge English Corpussteep descentA steep descent and a small raise to the finish line followed.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org/collocation/english/descent##