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Webster 1913 Edition

Depth

Depth

(sĕpth)
,
Noun.
[From
Deep
; akin to D.
diepte
, Icel.
dȳpt
,
dȳpð
, Goth.
diupiþa
.]
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.]
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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Depth

DEPTH

, n.
1.
Deepness; the distance or measure of a thing from the surface to the bottom, or to the extreme part downwards or inwards. The depth of a river may be ten feet. The depth of the ocean is unfathomable. The depth of a wound may be an inch. In a vertical direction, depth is opposed to highth.
2.
A deep place.
3.
The sea, the ocean.
The depth closed me round about. Jonah 2.
4.
The abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity.
When he set a compass on the face of the depth. Prov. 8.
5.
The middle or highth of a season, as the depth of winter; or the middle, the darkest or stillest part, as the depth of night; or the inner part, a part remote from the border, as the depth of a wood or forest.
6.
Abstruseness; obscurity; that which is not easily explored; as the depth of a science.
7.
Unsearchableness; infinity.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. Rom 11.
8.
The breadth and depth of the love of Christ, are its vast extent.
9.
Profoundness; extent of penetration, or of the capacity of penetrating; as depth of understanding; depth of skill.
10.
The depth of a squadron or battalion, is the number of men in a file, which forms the extent from the front to the rear; as a depth of three men or six men.
11.
Depth of a sail, the extent of the square sails from the head-rope to the foot-rope, or the length of the after-leech of a stay-sail or boom-sail.

Definition 2024

depth

depth

English

Noun

depth ‎(plural depths)

  1. The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep.
    Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.
  2. The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet.
  3. (figuratively) The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
    The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.
    The depth of the crisis had been exaggerated.
    We were impressed by the depth of her knowledge.
  4. Lowness.
    the depth of a sound
  5. (computing, colors) The total palette of available colors.
  6. (art, photography) The property of appearing three-dimensional.
    The depth of field in this picture is amazing.
  7. (literary, chiefly in the plural) The deepest part. (Usually of a body of water.)
    The burning ship finally sunk into the depths.
  8. (literary, chiefly in the plural) A very remote part.
    Into the depths of the jungle...
    In the depths of the night,
  9. The most severe part.
    in the depth of the crisis
    in the depths of winter
  10. (logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
  11. (horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
  12. (statistics) The lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values.
Examples (statistics)
Ordered Batch of 9 Values
Value 15 32 45 48 49 56 69 77 97
Depth 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1
  1. (aeronautics) The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface.

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Etymology

From Middle English depthe, from Old English *dīepþ ‎(“depth”), from Proto-Germanic *diupiþō ‎(“depth”), equivalent to deep +‎ -th. Cognate with Scots deepth ‎(“depth”), Saterland Frisian Djüpte ‎(“depth”), West Frisian djipte ‎(“depth”), Dutch diepte ‎(“depth”), Low German Deepde ‎(“depth”), Danish dybde ‎(“depth”), Icelandic dýpt ‎(“depth”), Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌹𐌸𐌰 ‎(diupiþa, “depth”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛpθ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛpθ

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