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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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  1. n. 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. n. Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.
  3. n. Lowness; as, depth of sound.
  4. n. 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.
  5. n. The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
  6. n. A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
  7. n. the extent downward or backward or inward
  8. n. degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
  9. n. (usually plural) a low moral state
  10. n. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
  11. n. the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense