meaning of depressions

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 ">typewriter"


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