Definition of Descenders

1. Noun. (plural of descender) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Descenders

1. descender [n] - See also: descender

Lexicographical Neighbors of Descenders

descemetocele
descend
descendable
descendant
descendants
descended
descendence
descendences
descendency
descendens
descendens cervicalis
descendens hypoglossi
descendent
descendents
descender
descenders (current term)
descendeur
descendibilities
descendibility
descendible
descending
descending(a)
descending Ss
descending anterior branch
descending aorta
descending artery of knee
descending branch
descending branch of hypoglossal nerve
descending branch of lateral circumflex femoral artery
descending branch of occipital artery

Literary usage of Descenders

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown (1921)
"These proportions are not by any means invariable, however, and indeed there is no fixed rule by which the proportions of ascenders and descenders to the ..."

2. Lettering by Thomas Wood Stevens (1916)
"This may be done, as in Figure, even to the point where the ascenders of one line pass the descenders of the line above. In such a case it is necessary now ..."

3. Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp (2004)
"The drawback was that the units that had been established were unsuited to the classic roman letterform; the descenders were virtually amputated. ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"When i or t was interpolated between ascending letters, when j occurred between descenders, and when r and s were present in any context of whatever sort, ..."

5. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-making, the by Theodore Low De Vinne (1900)
"To secure the highest durability on cylinder machines, types with short ascenders and descenders, broad faces, and stubby serifs should be selected. ..."

6. A Dictionary of the Art of Printing by William Savage (1841)
"... the mere shapes of the letters; these were cast on a square shank, with all the ascenders and descenders hanging over the body, which is styled kerned. ..."

7. The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman (1917)
"The eye takes little account of descenders in reading, because it runs along a line just below the tops of the ordinary letters, about at the bar of the ..."

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