·noun Dejection; despondency; lowness.
II. Depression ·noun Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
III. Depression ·noun The state of being depressed; a sinking.
IV. Depression ·noun The act of Depressing.
V. Depression ·noun Diminution, as of trade, ·etc.; inactivity; dullness.
VI. Depression ·noun The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
VII. Depression ·noun The operation of reducing to a lower degree;
— said of equations.
VIII. Depression ·noun A method of operating for cataract; couching. ·see Couch, ·vt, 8.
IX. Depression ·noun A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.