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Depth

//dɛpθ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep countable, uncountable

    "Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay."

  2. 2
    degree of psychological or intellectual profundity wordnet
  3. 3
    the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense wordnet
  5. 5
    the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone."

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  1. 6
    the extent downward or backward or inward wordnet
  2. 7
    lowness countable, uncountable

    "the depth of a sound"

  3. 8
    the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas wordnet
  4. 9
    the total palette of available colors countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    (usually plural) a low moral state wordnet
  6. 11
    the property of appearing three-dimensional countable, uncountable

    "The depth of field in this picture is amazing."

  7. 12
    the deepest part (usually of a body of water) countable, literary, plural-normally, uncountable

    "The burning ship finally sunk into the depths."

  8. 13
    a very remote part. countable, literary, plural-normally, uncountable

    "Into the depths of the jungle..."

  9. 14
    the most severe part countable, uncountable

    "in the depth of the crisis"

  10. 15
    the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content countable, uncountable
  11. 16
    a pair of toothed wheels which work together countable, uncountable
  12. 17
    the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface countable, uncountable
  13. 18
    the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values countable, uncountable
  14. 19
    A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key. countable, uncountable
  15. 20
    An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory). countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English depthe, from Old English *dīepþ (“depth”), from Proto-Germanic *diupiþō (“depth”), equivalent to deep + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognates Cognate with Scots deepth (“depth”), Saterland Frisian Djüpte (“depth”), West Frisian djipte (“depth; abyss, chasm”), Dutch diepte (“depth”), German Low German, Limburgish Deepde (“depth”), Luxembourgish Déift (“depth”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål dybde (“depth”), Faroese dýpd (“depth”), Icelandic djúp, dýpi, dýpt (“depth”), Norwegian Nynorsk djup, djupn, djupt, dypt (“depth”), Swedish djup (“depth”), Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌹𐌸𐌰 (diupiþa, “depth”).

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