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presidence (iou) and Descending (medicine)


presidence (iou)



presidence noun. L15.
[Old & mod. French presidence from medieval Latin praesidentia: see PRESIDENCY, -ENCE.]
The action or fact of presiding; control, authority. L15.
The function or office of president. Now rare. E17.

Descending (medicine)


descending


Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.

<astronomy> Descending constellations or signs, that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing southward.

<mathematics> 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.

Source: Websters Dictionary