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headroom
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In digital and analog audio , headroom refers to the amount by which the signal-handling capabilities of an audio system exceed a designated nominal level . Headroom can be thought of as a safety zone allowing transient audio peaks to exceed the nominal ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But once they're there, once you've given them headroom , they seem pretty determined to stick around. ▪ Legroom is generous, and headroom reasonably good. ▪ Once fully open there is 25m headroom above the river's 30m wide navigation ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headroom \Head"room`\ (-r[=oo]m`), n. (Arch.) See Headway , 2. [Mostly Brit.]
Usage examples of headroom.
Overhead rammers, sponges and wormers were held up in racks, restricting even more the limited headroom.
A large and fairly comfortable cabin was built into the afterpart of the ship, partly lowered into the hold to give it more headroom without rising too high above the deck.
Just getting into one of those backbreakers took a certain amount of gymnastic skill, and the headroom was so small it was all but impossible to turn over.
We had three tanks, four armored personnel carriers modified into fighting vehicles (ACAVs), an APC with added headroom and radios (a command track), and a light recovery vehicle that we called a cherrypicker though it had just a crane, not a bucket.
The effect on the French soldiers would be terrifying: the fact they weren't used to the half-darkness and low headroom of a frigate's gun deck put them at a disadvantage.