DESCENDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does descender mean? 

• DESCENDER (noun)
  The noun DESCENDER has 3 senses:

1. someone who descends

2. a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters

3. (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters

  Familiarity information: DESCENDER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESCENDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who descends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("descender" is a kind of...):

mover (someone who moves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "descender"):

abseiler; rappeller (a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("descender" is a kind of...):

alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("descender" is a kind of...):

line (a mark that is long relative to its width)

Domain category:

printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)