descendant vs record

descendant

adj
  • Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source. 

  • Descending; going down 

  • Descending from a biological ancestor. 

noun
  • A language that is descended from another. 

  • A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language. 

  • A later evolutionary type. 

  • One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations. 

  • A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source. 

record

noun
  • The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events. 

  • A set of data relating to a single individual or item. 

  • An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium. 

  • A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data. 

  • Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference. 

verb
  • To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium. 

  • To give legal status to by making an official public record. 

  • To make a record of information. 

  • To make an audio or video recording of. 

  • To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording. 

adj
  • Enough to break previous records and set a new one; world-class; extreme. 

How often have the words descendant and record occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )