01 n. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front…
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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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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.
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Lowness; as, depth of sound.
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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.
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The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.(Logic)
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A pair of toothed wheels which work together.(Horology) [R.]
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The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface.(Aëronautics)
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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.(Computers)
Phrases & compounds
Depth of a sail —
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.