depth

English

/dɛpθ/

noun
Definitions
  • the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
  • the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
  • (figuratively) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
  • lowness
  • (computing) the total palette of available colors
  • (arts) the property of appearing three-dimensional
  • (literary) the deepest part usually of a body of water
  • (literary) a very remote part.
  • the most severe part
  • (logic) the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
  • (horology) a pair of toothed wheels which work together
  • (aeronautics) the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
  • (statistics) the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English depthe inherited from Old English *dīepþ (depth) inherited from Proto-Germanic *diupiþō (depth) suf from English deep root from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (whisk, smoke, darken, obscure, black, deep, be obscured, plug, wedge, peg, be obscure, whirl, smoky, foggy, dim, mist, stupefaction, daze).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*dʰewbʰ-

Gloss

whisk, smoke, darken, obscure, black, deep, be obscured, plug, wedge, peg, be obscure, whirl, smoky, foggy, dim, mist, stupefaction, daze

Concept
Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

煙

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