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The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
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Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.
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The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
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The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
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The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.
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Lowness
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the depth of a sound
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(colors) the total palette of available colors
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The property of appearing three-dimensional
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The depth of field in this picture is amazing.
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(usually in the plural) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
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The burning ship finally sunk into the depths.
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(usually in the plural) a very remote part.
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In the depths of the night,
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The most severe part
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in the depth of the crisis
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The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
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A pair of toothed wheels which work together
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The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
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The lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values