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noun (n)

• the extent downward or backward or inward(noun.attribute)

  Example:
  The depth of the water.
  Depth of a shelf.
  Depth of a closet.
  

  Synonym:
  deepness
  

  source: wordnet30
• degree of psychological or intellectual profundity(noun.attribute)

  source: wordnet30
• (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part(noun.location)

  Example:
  From the depths of darkest Africa.
  Signals received from the depths of space.
  

  source: wordnet30
• (usually plural) a low moral state(noun.state)

  Example:
  He had sunk to the depths of addiction.
  

  source: wordnet30
• the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas(noun.cognition)

  Synonym:
  astuteness, deepness, profoundness, profundity
  

  source: wordnet30
• the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense(noun.attribute)

  Example:
  The depth of his breathing.
  The depth of his sighs,.
  The depth of his emotion.
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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.(noun)

  source: webster1913
• The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface.(noun)

  source: webster1913