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headroom
[ hed-room, -room ]
noun
- Nautical. the clear space between two decks.
- Also called headway.
- clear vertical space, as between the head and sill of a doorway, the ceiling and floor of a room, or the ceiling of a vehicular passageway and a vehicle roof, as to allow passage or comfortable occupancy:
over 7.5 feet of headroom in the attic;
a covered bridge with limited headroom.
- clear vertical space above one’s head, as in a vehicle or room:
plenty of headroom for passengers.
- Audio. dynamic headroom.
headroom
/ -ˌruːm; ˈhɛdˌrʊm /
noun
- the height of a bridge, room, etc; clearance
Example Sentences
Even given the extraordinary growth off the high base it is putting up, Amazon still has plenty of headroom.
So the Treasury Department did some fancy footwork and found some headroom by halting payments into government pension plans.
In order to get headroom there is 'trunk' 'rise' on the deck, as shown on the cross-section drawing, 18 in.
Plenty of headroom has always been my cry; I believe that where it is attended to there is very rarely an accident.
A light airy greenhouse is their proper place, and they must have ample headroom.
It has more headroom, and therefore easier working facilities.
Moreover, we knew that barges of that size seldom have more headroom.
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