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What is a descender?

What is a descender? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person or thing that descends.
  2. (typography) The part of a lowercase letter that is drawn below the bottom of lowercase letters, such as the tail of the letters g, p, and q.
  3. (cycling) A cyclist who excels at fast descents.
  4. A belay device used in rock climbing
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Within each triplet set, the items were matched for rhyme and whether the initial letter was an ascender, descender, or x-height.
The alpine slalom inspired dual descender at Sherwood Pines is not for the faint hearted!
A manual crank on the descender device AG 10 Hub-A can be used for rescuing persons by lifting them.
Candidates shall demonstrate stopping and locking off the descender device.
Multi-use-benefit: if necessary, it can also be used as a self-locking descender and as a rope grab.
Measuring a lower case letter that has an ascender or descender is equivalent to measuring an upper-case letter.

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