Descend vs Dethermalizer - What's the difference?
descend | dethermalizer |
To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward
(poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
(with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self
To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.
(anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
(music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
(en noun) (Abbreviated as : DT)
A device that alters the aerodynamics of an airplane, glider etc, allowing it to descend quickly but safely, especially when caught in a thermal
:"One of the most bittersweet joys in model aviation is an out of sight flight by a Free Flight model. While we all strive for our models to fly as well as we can, it is possible to have a model fly too well. Well trimmed, and with a bit of luck, a model can be caught in a thermal and climb to beyond the limits of our vision. It is the purpose of a dethermalizer to effect a change in the geometry of a model, such that it descends more rapidly, yet still safely. Getting the DT to activate after a target time is the job of a DT timer." ~ Thayer Syme. Reprinted with permission.
As a verb descend
is to pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward.As a noun dethermalizer is
a device that alters the aerodynamics of an airplane, glider etc, allowing it to descend quickly but safely, especially when caught in a thermal.descend
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The rain descended , and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.
- We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.
- [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended . .
- And on the suitors let thy wrath descend . .
- he descended from his high estate
- the beggar may descend from a prince
- a crown descends to the heir
- they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder
- But never tears his cheek descended . .