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Depth n.

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."

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." "The depth closed me round about."

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.)

7.

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

8.

(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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"Depth" Quotes from Famous Books

... nature, and their learning no more than that of common-place, they have applied the sense of the parables to certain general and vulgar matters, without reaching to their real purport, genuine interpretation and full depth;' certainly it would not be that kind of criticism, then, which would be able to bring out the subtleties of the new learning from those popular embodiments, which he tells us it will have to take, in order to make some impression, ...

— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon

... the river would dry up, in consequence of their Neptune taking offence at me. Once over, I looked down on the noble stream with considerable pride. About eight yards broad, it was sunk down a considerable depth below the surface of the land, like a huge canal, and is so deep, it could not be poled by the canoemen; while it runs at a velocity of from three to four ...

— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

... crevices that the young explorer discovered on the way up. These appeared to reach down to a considerable depth, but having no weight to attach to the end of his rope he could not sound the depth with any degree of certainty. One of these crevices was large enough to admit ...

— The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks • Frank Gee Patchin

... am sure that the young of all animals often do want help upon matters about which anyone would say a priori that there should be no difficulty. One would think that a young seal would want no teaching how to swim, nor yet a bird to fly, but in practice a young seal drowns if put out of its depth before its parents have taught it to swim; and so again, even the young hawk must be taught to fly before it ...

— The Way of All Flesh • Samuel Butler

... cities. It consists in the wonderful inequality between his mental and social development. The same person who will be regarded as a boor in good society, will yet exhibit a rapidity and profundity of thought and intelligence—a depth and soundness of judgment—an acuteness in discrimination—a logical accuracy, and critical analysis, such as mere good society rarely shows, and such as books almost as rarely teach. There will be a deficiency ...

— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms

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