English-Italian translations for depth

• profondità
  La profondità media è 58 metri. The average depth is 58 metres.
  Al momento si parla di profondità e attrezzi. Currently there is talk of depths and fishing gear.
  Perché dobbiamo prevedere una specifica restrizione riguardo alle profondità? Why do we have to provide for a specific depth restriction?
• abisso
  È sorprendente che il terzo millennio, che avrebbe dovuto albeggiare all'insegna di un nuovo alfabeto dei diritti di cittadinanza, conosca invece l'abisso dell'involuzione culturale. It is surprising that the third millennium, which should have heralded the dawn of a new era for citizens' rights, has in fact descended to the depths of cultural regression.
  E’ costata la vita a milioni di persone e ha condotto all’annientamento degli ebrei, oltre a precipitare l’Europa nell’abisso della ferocia, della devastazione economica e del decadimento morale. It claimed the lives of millions of people and led to the annihilation of the Jews, as well as plunging Europe into the depths of savagery, economic devastation and moral decay.

Definition of depth

• 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
• lowness
• the total palette of available colors
• the deepest part
• a very remote part
• the most severe part
• the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
• the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface

Examples

• Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay
• The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone
• The depth of the crisis had been exaggerated
• We were impressed by the depth of her knowledge
• the depth of a sound
• The depth of field in this picture is amazing
• The burning ship finally sunk into the depths
• Into the depths of the jungle
• In the depths of the night
• in the depth of the crisis
• in the depths of winter

Related words

• depths
• in-depth
• depth of field
• depth charge
• depth psychology
• depth gauge
• depth contour
• depth line
• depth of hold