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depth

noun
/dɛpθ/

Etymology

From Middle English depthe, from Old English *dīepþ (“depth”), from Proto-Germanic *diupiþō (“depth”), equivalent to deep + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognates Cognate with Scots deepth, Saterland Frisian Djüpte, West Frisian djipte (“depth; abyss, chasm”), Dutch diepte, German Low German Deepd, Luxembourgish Déift, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål dybde (“depth”), Faroese dýpd (“depth”), Icelandic dýpt, Norwegian Nynorsk djupt, dypt, and Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌹𐌸𐌰 (diupiþa, “depth”); further to Old English diepe, German Tiefe, Icelandic dýpi, Norwegian Nynorsk djup, djupn, Swedish djup.

  1. inherited from *diupiþō✻ — “depth”
  2. inherited from *dīepþ✻ — “depth”
  3. inherited from depthe

Definitions

  1. the vertical distance below a surface

    the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep

    • Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.

  2. the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet

  3. the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation,…

    the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.

    • The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.
    • The depth of the crisis had been exaggerated.
    • We were impressed by the depth of her knowledge.
  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. lowness

      • the depth of a sound

    2. the total palette of available colors

    3. the property of appearing three-dimensional

      • The depth of field in this picture is amazing.

    4. the deepest part (usually of a body of water)

      • The burning ship finally sunk into the depths.

    5. a very remote part.

      • Into the depths of the jungle...
      • In the depths of the night,

    6. the most severe part

      • in the depth of the crisis
      • in the depths of winter

    7. the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes

      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

      An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).

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Derived

beyond one's depth, bit depth, bit-depth, codepth, color depth, crush depth, defence in depth, defense in depth, depth bomb, depth charge, depth-charge, depthen, depth-first search, depth gauge, depthie, depth interview, depthless, depthness, depth of field, depth of focus, depth peeling, depth perception, depth psychology, depth-psychology, depthscraper, depth sounder, depthwise, design depth, double play depth, focal depth, in depth, in-depth, indepth, normal depth, operating depth, optical depth, out of one's depth, palaeodepth, paleodepth, Secchi depth · +2 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at depth. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at depth. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at depth

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA