slow descent

collocation in English

meaningsofslowanddescent

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slow
adjective
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/sləʊ/us
/sloʊ/
moving, happening, or doing something without ...
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descent
noun
uk
/dɪˈsent/us
/dɪˈsent/
the state or fact of being related to a particular person or group of people who lived in ...
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(Definition ofslowanddescentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thisslowdescentis partially obscured by the noisiness of the computed statistics.
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It was flown 500 nm, then aslowdescentto sea level followed by a return to base at 1,500 feet.
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Then, at a height of 6.7 km, a large parafoil was to be deployed toslowdescentfurther and leave the capsule in stable flight.
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These disappointments led to aslowdescentwhich culminated in relegation to the regional championships, following the restructuring of the divisions in 1968.
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Aslowdescentbrings the visitor back to the starting point.
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She has been married three times, in what she has described as herslowdescentinto respectability.
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The next major hunting method is low flight withslowdescentattack.
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About 33 km above the ground, a drogue parachute was to be deployed toslowdescent.
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The long andslowdescentof the dynasty finally came to the forefront during his reign in the form of internal and external instabilities.
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It begins with a slight rise for 1,000m, then aslowdescentfor 600m.
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The inside of the cathedral is somewhat disfigured by work designed to halt the cathedral'sslowdescent into the soft ground, made worse by dropping water tables.
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The sides of the square are not truly vertical due to the need for aslowdescentto avoid barotrauma and a slow ascent rate to avoid decompression sickness.
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