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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Depth \Depth\, n. (A["e]ronautics) The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Depth \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.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: depth n 1: extent downward or backward or inward: "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet" 2: degree of psychological or intellectual depth 3: (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part "from the depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the depths of space" 4: (usually plural) a low moral state; "he had sunk to the depths of addiction" 5: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [syn: {astuteness}, {profundity}, {profoundness}]
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