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What does "depth" mean?

Depth: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Lowness; as, depth of sound.
  2. 3.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.
  3. 4.5. (Logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
  4. 5.(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.

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