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.