Definitions
1.Nounthe 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.Nounthe distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
3.Nounthe 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.Nounlowness"the depth of a sound"
5.Nounthe total palette of available colors
6.Nounthe property of appearing three-dimensional"The depth of field in this picture is amazing."
7.Nounthe deepest part"The burning ship finally sunk into the depths."
8.Nouna very remote part."Into the depths of the jungle...; In the depths of the night,"
9.Nounthe most severe part"in the depth of the crisis; in the depths of winter"
10.Nounthe number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
11.Nouna pair of toothed wheels which work together
12.Nounthe perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
13.Nounthe lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
14.NounA set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
15.NounAn invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).