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Downward vs Downgoing - What's the difference?

downward | downgoing |

As adjectives the difference between downward and downgoing

is that downward is moving or sloping down while downgoing is (sciences|especially of a wave) tending downward.

As an adverb downward

is toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.

As a noun downgoing is

(rare|poetic) a descent.

downward

English

Adverb

(en-adv) (or downwards )
  • Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
    • His position in society moved ever downward .
  • * Drayton
    • Their heads they downward bent.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A ring the county wears, / That downward hath descended in his house, / From son to son, some four or five descents.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • moving or sloping down
    • He spoke with a downward glance.

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    downgoing

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (sciences, especially of a wave) Tending downward
  • * {{quote-book, 1997, , Research Required to Support Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, isbn=0309058260 citation
    • , passage=First, explosions in the water are efficient generators of seismic waves, because hydroacoustic energy efficiently generates downgoing seismic waves below the water.}}

    Antonyms

    * upgoing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, poetic) A descent
  • * {{quote-book, 1854, John Stanyan Bigg, Night and the Soul: A Dramatic Poem citation
    • , passage=Art thou not weary, Time, of thy long tramp, / Thy long downgoings from the thrones of bliss ?}}

    Related terms

    * downgone * upgoing

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