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Definition of Headroom

1. Noun. Vertical space available to allow easy passage under something.

2. Noun. The capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion.

Definition of Headroom

1. n. See Headway, 2.

Definition of Headroom

1. Noun. the vertical clearance above someone's head, as in a tunnel, doorway etc ¹

2. Noun. (electronics) the ability of a system to reproduce loud sounds free of distortion; dynamic headroom ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Headroom

1. clear vertical space [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Headroom

headquartered headquartering headquarters headquarters staff headrace headraces headrail headrails headrest headrests

headrig headright headrigs headring headrings headroom (current term) headrooms headrope headropes headrush

headrushes headrushing heads heads-up heads-up display heads-up displays heads-ups heads I win, tails you lose heads of agreement heads of government

Literary usage of Headroom

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Vignola by William Robert Ware (1906)
"headroom.—It is generally possible to pass under a staircase at about the fourteenth step from the bottom, and to pass over one at the fourteenth step from ..."

2. Rudder by Thomas Fleming Day (1912)
"The height of seaworthy cruiser with good headroom in the cabin, ... with toilet, galley, and ample 'Cr Clear headroom of 5 feet is obtained in forward ..."

3. Inside Finishing by Charles Albert King (1912)
"A carefully dimensioned sketch of the stair opening is made, and the headroom calculated at the building, if there is any doubt as to the possibility of ..."

4. Passenger Transportation Service in the City of New York: A Report to the by Merchants' Association of New York, Committee on engineering and sanitation (1903)
"While such a height may be desirable, it is not necessary, even for the amplest headroom, as two forms of the knife-board seat car, which has been built and ..."

5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1909)
"In trimming joists of staircases, the two cross-beams, which are called headers, should be so placed as to allow sufficient headroom to meet all probable ..."

6. History of the Barge Canal of New York State by Noble Earl Whitford (1922)
"The requirements of the War Department were that bridges should be of some type which would give unlimited headroom when open, that they give clear headroom ..."

7. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1874)
"Your headroom to the hill direct, Frae your haugh tilled in effect. Betwixt twa glenis ane mentis bordc, Divides thae glenis, I sall stand for't. ..."

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