Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Depth   /dɛpθ/   Listen
noun
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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Depth" Quotes from Famous Books



... surrounding the camp with earth-works, and digging around it a deep and wide ditch and planting it in a circle with stakes so that no one can jump over it by reason of its breadth, nor go down into it because of its depth, is found in the warlike operations of Homer (I. ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch
... intellect that, matured by long meditation, and assisted by that absolute freedom from prejudice, which, was the compensatory possession of a man without a country, permitted Sidonia to fathom, as it were by intuition, the depth of questions apparently the most difficult and profound. He possessed the rare faculty of communicating with precision ideas the most abstruse, and in general a power of expression which ...
— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli
... upon the depth Of the unspoken; even your loved words Float in the larger meaning of your voice As something dimmer. 1779 GEORGE ...
— Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations • Various
... but, possessing very little depth, it strongly resembles a tambourine in shape. Its want of depth is compensated however by its diameter which frequently exceeds three feet. It is covered with moose-skin parchment, painted with rude figures of men and beasts having various ...
— The Journey to the Polar Sea • John Franklin
... wasps just recovering from their winter torpor. On the very tombs themselves there was a lavish adornment of vegetable life: snow-white drifts of hawthorn and honeysuckle wreaths waved on the summits of those on which a sufficient depth of soil had lodged; the wild dog-rose spread its thorny bushes and passionate-coloured crimson blooms as a fence around others; and even on the barest of them nothing could exceed the wealth of orange lichens that redeemed their ...
— Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Free Translator.org