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Depth

Depth Meaning & Definition
Depth Definition And Meaning

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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