DEPRESSION


Meaning of DEPRESSION in English

noun dejection; despondency; lowness.

2. depression ·noun humiliation; abasement, as of pride.

3. depression ·noun the state of being depressed; a sinking.

4. depression ·noun the act of depressing.

5. depression ·noun diminution, as of trade, ·etc.; inactivity; dullness.

6. depression ·noun the angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.

7. depression ·noun the operation of reducing to a lower degree;

— said of equations.

8. depression ·noun a method of operating for cataract; couching. ·see couch, ·vt, 8.

9. depression ·noun a falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.

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