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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
  12. 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 sail.