Hypertext Webster Gateway: "depth"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Depth \Depth\, n. (A["e]ronautics)
The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest
point of an arched surface.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Depth \Depth\ (s[e^]pth), n. [From {Deep}; akin to D. diepte,
Icel. d[=y]pt, d[=y]p[eth], Goth. diupi[thorn]a.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Lowness; as, depth of sound.
4. 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.
5. (Logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract
conception or notion includes; the comprehension or
content.
6. (Horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
[R.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
depth
n 1: extent downward or backward or inward: "the depth of the
water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet"
2: degree of psychological or intellectual depth
3: (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; "from the
depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the
depths of space"
4: (usually plural) a low moral state; "he had sunk to the
depths of addiction"
5: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
[syn: {astuteness}, {profundity}, {profoundness}]
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