About The Word Depth
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What's The Definition Of Depth?
[n] degree of psychological or intellectual depth
[n] extent downward or backward or inward; "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet" [n] the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [n] (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; "from the depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the depths of space" [n] (usually plural) a low moral state; "he had sunk to the depths of addiction" Synonyms | Synonyms for Depth: astuteness | profoundness | profundity Related Terms | Find terms related to Depth: abstruseness | abysm | abyss | acumen | amplitude | area | astuteness | bigness | bodily size | body | bottomless pit | brain | breadth | brightness | brilliance | brilliancy | broad-mindedness | bulk | caliber | cavity | chasm | classical pitch | coarseness | complexity | comprehensively | corpulence | coverage | crater | crevasse | deep | deeply | deepness | deeps | depths | diameter | dimension | dimensions | distance through | draft | drop | erudition | expanse | expansion | extension | extensively | extent | fatness | French pitch | gauge | girth | good understanding | greatness | grossness | gulf | height | high pitch | hole | hollow | in detail | innerness | inness | insight | intellect | intelligence | intensity | intensively | interiority | internality | internalization | intricacy | intrinsicality | introversion | intuition | inwardness | keenness | key | largeness | length | low pitch | lowness | magnitude | mass | measure | measurement | mellow wisdom | nadir | new philharmonic pitch | note | obscurity | penetration | perception | perspicaciousness | perspicacity | philharmonic pitch | philosophical pitch | pit | pitch | profoundly | profoundness | profundity | proportion | proportions | radius | range | reach | reconditeness | register | richness | ripe wisdom | sagacity | sageness | sapience | scale | scope | seasoned understanding | sense | shaft | sharpness | size | Sophia | sound understanding | sounding | spread | standard pitch | strength | the third dimension | thickness | thoroughly | tonality | tone | tune | understanding | vividness | volume | well | width | wisdom | wiseness | yawning abyss See Also | abasement | abjection | back of beyond | deepness | degradation | degree | draft | draught | extent | grade | level | part | penetration | profoundness | profundity | region | sapience | shallowness | sounding | superficiality | wisdom Depth In Webster's Dictionary \Depth\ (s[e^]pth), n. [From {Deep}; akin to D. diepte,
Icel. d[=y]pt, d[=y]p[eth], Goth. diupi[thorn]a.]
1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular
measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal
measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a
river; the depth of a body of troops.
2. Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance;
completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.
Mindful of that heavenly love Which knows no end in
depth or height. --Keble.
3. Lowness; as, depth of sound.
4. That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place;
the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of
winter.
From you unclouded depth above. --Keble.
The depth closed me round about. --Jonah ii. 5.
5. (Logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract
conception or notion includes; the comprehension or
content.
6. (Horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
[R.]
{Depth of a sail} (Naut.), the extent of a square sail from
the head rope to the foot rope; the length of the after
leach of a staysail or boom sail; -- commonly called the
{drop of a sail}.
\Depth\, n. (A["e]ronautics) The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface. |
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