Depth

Definition of Depth

Pronunciation: sĕpth

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.

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.

Lowness; as, depth of sound.

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.

(Logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.

(Horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

(Aëronautics) The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface.

(Computers) the maximum number of times a type of procedure is reiteratively called before the last call is exited; - of subroutines or procedures which are reentrant; - used of call stacks.

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.

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