meaning of depression
1. The act of depressing.
2. The state of being depressed; a sinking.
3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.
4. Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
5. Dejection; despondency; lowness.
6. Diminution, as of trade, etc. ; inactivity; dullness.
7. The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
8. The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.
9. A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t. , 8.
10. pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the
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