Headroom

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  • noun. Space above one's head, as in a motor vehicle, above a doorway, or in a tunnel; clearance.
  • noun. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The vertical distance from a floor to the ceiling or beams above it: so named because this distance determines whether or not a person has room for his head when standing or walking on the floor.
  • noun. Specifically, the space left above a stair by means of which the head of the person ascending the stair is kept free from striking or coming too near the superstructure.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. See headway, 2.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the vertical clearance above someone's head, as in a tunnel, doorway etc
  • noun. the ability of a system to reproduce loud sounds free of distortion; dynamic headroom
  • noun. the distance between the actual performance of an algorithm to its maximum possible performance
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. vertical space available to allow easy passage under something
  • noun. the capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion
  • Word Usage
    "PERFORMANCE: In a luxury car, power is less about maximum speed and acceleration than the equivalent to what audiophiles call "headroom" - the capacity to deal instantly and effortlessly with any demand on the system."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    elbowroom  hifi  high fidelity  room  way  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bedroom  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    variant
    headway