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.
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.
Lowness; as, depth of sound.
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.
The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content. (Logic)
A pair of toothed wheels which work together. (Horology) [R.]
The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface. (Aëronautics)
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. (Computers)
Phrases & Compounds
Depth of a sail
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.