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depth

/dɛpθ/

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“We measured the depth of the pond.”

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What does depth mean?

noun

  1. the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
  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.
More meanings (12)

noun

  1. lowness
  2. the total palette of available colors
  3. the property of appearing three-dimensional
  4. (literary) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
  5. (literary) a very remote part.
  6. the most severe part
  7. the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
  8. a pair of toothed wheels which work together
  9. the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
  10. the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
  11. A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
  12. An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).
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IPA pronunciation

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At this point the excavation exhibited a depth of six and a half feet and the work of the masonry was begun.
Jules VerneFrom the Earth to the moon; and, round the moonProject Gutenberg ebook #83
He was tall and thin, and wore his coats padded, which gave a fictitious breadth and depth to his shoulders and chest.
Kate ChopinThe Awakening, and Selected Short StoriesProject Gutenberg ebook #160
More book examples (3)
Moreover, in summer, Walden never becomes so warm as most water which is exposed to the sun, on account of its depth.
Henry David ThoreauWalden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceProject Gutenberg ebook #205
The noise of wheels and tread of people were as hushed, as if the streets had been strewn that depth with feathers.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766
It buries itself to a certain depth before bursting so that the forces of the explosion become somewhat muffled as it were.
Frederick Arthur Ambrose TalbotAeroplanes and Dirigibles of WarProject Gutenberg ebook #793