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This is why you have different pools for swimmers and non-swimmers, or one pool with a gradient of depths.

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Quick take

The most severe or involved period.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

The most severe or involved period.

noun

(literary) The deepest part. (Usually of a body of water.)

noun

(of an emotion, mystery) The lowest point, all-time low, nadir.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for depths.

noun

The most severe or involved period.

noun

(literary) The deepest part. (Usually of a body of water.)

noun

(of an emotion, mystery) The lowest point, all-time low, nadir.

noun

(literary) A very remote part.

Example sentences

This is why you have different pools for swimmers and non-swimmers, or one pool with a gradient of depths.

You'll stick out, and sound downright silly in the depths of Moravia, but you'll be fine.

At extreme depths of like 400m even helium gas gets thick and hard to breathe, whereas hydrogen is a little less dense.

While this is anecdotal, I also found that poor treaders often made attempts to move to more secure depths.

It's just that John is infinitely more entertaining, informative and insightful; Marco and Casey are often out of their depths on many subjects.

From a technical perspective, it's useful to keep in mind that the closest humanity has come to drilling to the appropriate depths offshore is...

There are rather a lot of hidden depths one can mine out of Middle-Earth, often in directions its creator would probably not have approved of.

The layers are way thinner than the feature pitch, so we're already at 1nm layer depths, or less, in some chips.

I enjoyed Lego City Undercover, still haven't beaten it, it's quite fun to run around exploring the depths of the game.

I feel out of my depths even applying or building a resume for a development job and have a family to support.

Programming languages have similar levels of abstraction so one can start with basics and allow the growth/understanding/grok to come from exploring the depths of abstraction inherent within.

Original author here, I agree the depths of abstraction in CS are endless.

Quote examples

I see that jscs has a "disallowSemicolons" rule, but I didn't know stupidity went to such depths as to actually USE that rule...

"The noble probe will remain stout and true; in the freezing depths of space it will be warmed by the Americium it carries in its heart."

Two books (with very long titles) that may be helpful in understanding and combatting the illness are: "The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic" and "How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable about Anything--yes, Anything!"

Putting “thank you” on the tip of my tongue, ready to escape at a moment’s notice, rather than extracting it from the depths of my heart, was one of the hardest language lessons I had to learn in the United States.