deepening

English

Verb

deepening

1. present participle and gerund of deepen

Noun

deepening (plural deepenings)

1. The act of becoming deeper.
   • 1972, H. H. Lamb, Climate: Present, Past and Future, volume 1, page 408:

     Further examples of the same effect could be seen in sudden deepenings of depressions over the warmer than normal eastern Atlantic in the 1968-9 winter: the consequence was interruptions of the cold weather prevailing in Britain […]

Derived terms

• iterative deepening search