Descendant(s) or descendent(s) may refer to:
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Lineal descendant, a consanguinous (i.e. biological) relative directly related to a person
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Collateral descendant
A lineal descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in the direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of a person. In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate by i ...
, a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor
Books
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"The Descendant" (short story), a short story by early 20th-century science-fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft
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''The Descendants'' (novel), a 2007 novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Film and television
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''Descendant'' (2003 film), a thriller film starring Katherine Heigl and Jeremy London
* ''Descendants'' (2008 film), an animated short film, Winner
Tokyo Anime Award
The Tokyo Anime Awards started in 2002, but was named in 2005. The first, second and third award ceremonies were simply named 'Competition'. The award ceremonies were held at the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) until 2013. In 2014, after th ...
2009
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''Descendents'' (2008 film), a Chilean experimental horror film
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The Descendants
''The Descendants'' is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne. The screenplay by Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars George Clooney in the mai ...
'', a 2011 American drama film directed by Alexander Payne with George Clooney
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''The Descendants'' (2015 film), an Iranian film directed by Yaser Talebi
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''Descendants'' (franchise), a Disney Channel television film franchise
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''Descendants'' (2015 film), the television film that started the above franchise
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Descendants (soundtrack)
''Descendants (Original TV Movie Soundtrack)'' is a soundtrack album by cast of the film of the same name, released on July 31, 2015 by Walt Disney Records. The soundtrack peaked at number 1 in United States at ''Billboard'' 200, number one on th ...
'', the soundtrack for the television film
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Descendant (2022 film)
''Descendant'' is a 2022 American historical documentary film directed by Margaret Brown, chronicling the story behind Africatown in Alabama, and the descendants of the last known enslaved Africans brought to the United States aboard the '' Cloti ...
, Netflix documentary
Music
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Descendents
The Descendents are an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Manhattan Beach, California, by guitarist Frank Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson. In 1979, they enlisted Stevenson's school friend Milo Aukerman as a ...
, a punk rock band from southern California
Other
* A type of node (element) in a
tree structure
A tree structure, tree diagram, or tree model is a way of representing the hierarchical nature of a structure in a graphical form. It is named a "tree structure" because the classic representation resembles a tree, although the chart is genera ...
* A subordinate in a
hierarchy
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Descendant (astrology)
A horoscope (or other commonly used names for the horoscope in English include natal chart, astrological chart, astro-chart, celestial map, sky-map, star-chart, cosmogram, vitasphere, radical chart, radix, chart wheel or simply chart) is an ast ...
, the point directly opposite from the Ascendant (the Rising Sign)
See also
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Descendance
Descendance (Descendance Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Dance Theatre), previously known as the Ngaru Dancers, is an Australian Aboriginal dance company formed in 1999.
They have performed internationally and won first prize in the dance c ...
, an Australian Aboriginal dance company formed in 1999
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Ascendant
The ascendant (Asc, Asc or As) is the astrological sign on the eastern horizon when the person was born.
According to certain astrological theories, celestial phenomena reflect or influence human activity on the principle of " as above, so bel ...
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Ancestor
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