Depth

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Lowness; as, depth of sound.

II. Depth ·noun A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

III. Depth ·add. ·noun The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface.

IV. Depth ·noun Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.

V. Depth ·noun The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.

VI. Depth ·noun 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.

VII. Depth ·noun 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.

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