depth
- Noun. The vertical distance below a surface; the amount that something is deep.
- Noun. The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet.
- Noun. (figuratively) The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, or situation.
- Noun. (computing, colors) The total palette of available colors.
- Noun. (arts, photography) The property of appearing three-dimensional.
- Noun. (literary, usually plural) The deepest part. (Usually of a body of water.).
- Noun. (literary, usually plural) A very remote part.
- Noun. The most severe part.
- Noun. (statistics) The lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values.
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