descender

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descender

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n.

1. One that descends.
2. Printing.
   1. The part of the lowercase letters, such as g, p, and q, that extends below the other lowercase letters.
   2. A letter with such a part.

The part of lower case characters g, j, p, q and y that fall below the line. Sometimes these characters are displayed and printed with shortened descenders in order to fit into a smaller character cell, making them difficult to read. See typeface.

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1. That part of a lowercase letter that extends below the main body of the letter. The letters g, j, p, q, and y all have descenders.

2. Any lowercase letter with such a descending stroke. See also

ascender.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - efterkommer, del af bogstav under linjen

Nederlands (Dutch)
staart (van letter), neerhaal, staartletter

Français (French)
n. - (Typ) jambage, queue

Deutsch (German)
n. - (Buchstabe mit) Unterlänge

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (τυπογρ.) κάτω πατούρα τυπογραφικού στοιχείου

Italiano (Italian)
ghirigoro

Português (Portuguese)
n. - descendente (f)

Русский (Russian)
буква, выходящая за нижнюю строку

Español (Spanish)
n. - descender

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - den del av liten bokstav som ligger under huvuddelen av bokstaven

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
下降或传下者

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 下降或傳下者

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 내려가는 것, 혈통

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 降りる人, 直立コンベアー

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الحرف الذي له جز هابط عن مستوى الجز الرئيسي للحرف ( مثل حرف)p‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חלק האות מתחת לשורה‬

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