DEPTHS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depths mean? 

• DEPTHS (noun)
  The noun DEPTHS has 1 sense:

1. (plural) the deepest and most remote part

  Familiarity information: DEPTHS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPTHS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(plural) the deepest and most remote part

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

signals received from the depths of space

Hypernyms ("depths" is a kind of...):

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "depths"):

back of beyond (a very remote and inaccessible place)

 Context examples 

The scientists were surprised to find depths in the sea as great as 525 feet (160 meters) at the deepest point along the radar track.

(Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan, NASA)

The data indicate that Ceres is "differentiated," which means that it has compositionally distinct layers at different depths, with the densest layer at the core.

(What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data, NASA)

Prior research has suggested that it takes a very long time for water in the Pacific Ocean to circulate down to its lowest depths.

(Bottom of Pacific Found to Be Getting Colder, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It extended on into infinity, and through its golden depths his soul went questing after hers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Results showed the sharks' frequented sites had areas of very shallow water near a steep drop-off into the depths, such as a shelf break or reef slope.

(New study of endangered whale shark youth shows vital habitat similarities, Wikinews)

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The first operational dive of Okeanos Explorer’s 2016 season, on February 27, explored depths of over 4,000 meters northeast of Necker Island (Mokumanamana) in the Hawaiian Archipelago.

(Deep Discoverer Discovers a Very Deep, Ghostlike Octopod, NOAA)

The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The timing of the radar echoes, as they bounced off the canyons' edges and floors, provided a direct measure of their depths.

(Cassini Finds Flooded Canyons on Titan, NASA)

I am speaking from the depths of my heart—of my very soul.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)