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depth
English
Etymology
From Middle English depthe, from Old English *d?epþ (“depth”), from Proto-Germanic *diupiþ? (“depth”), equivalent to deep +? -th. Cognate with Scots deepth (“depth”), Saterland Frisian Djüpte (“depth”), West Frisian djipte (“depth”), Dutch diepte (“depth”), Low German Deepde (“depth”), Danish dybde (“depth”), Icelandic dýpt (“depth”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (diupiþa, “depth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?p?/
- Rhymes: -?p?
Noun
depth (countable and uncountable, plural depths)
- the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
- Synonyms: deepness, lowness
- 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, colors) the total palette of available colors
- (art, photography) the property of appearing three-dimensional
- (literary, usually in the plural) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
- (literary, usually in the plural) 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
Synonyms
- (deep place): abyss, bottom, bathos, nadir
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
depth From the web:
- what depth is netherite
- what depth do diamonds spawn
- what depth does netherite spawn
- what depth is counter depth
- what depth is the titanic at
- what depth should tires be replaced
- what depth to ice fish for walleye
- what depth is counter depth refrigerator
fathometer
English
Etymology
fathom (“nautical length measurement used for depth”) +? -meter
Noun
fathometer (plural fathometers)
- (nautical) A depth finder that uses sound waves to determine the depth of water.
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang (Ballantine Books, 2003), page 347:
- A Fathometer is just a vertical echo-ranger; its pings would sound the same and could drive a submarine out of position just as effectively as horizontal echo-ranging and might even make a contact.
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang (Ballantine Books, 2003), page 347:
Translations
fathometer From the web:
- what fathometer measure
- what is fathometer used to measure
- what does fathometer measure
- what is fathometer in science
- what does fathometer mean
- what is fathometer
- what is fathometer meaning in hindi
- what means fathometer
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