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Top-level clearance
Answer for the clue "Top-level clearance ", 8 letters:
headroom
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Word definitions for headroom in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headroom \Head"room`\ (-r[=oo]m`), n. (Arch.) See Headway , 2. [Mostly Brit.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"space above the head," 1851, from head (n.) + room (n.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Headroom or HeadRoom may refer to: Vertical clearance , in engineering, the maximum distance overhead (the difference between the structure gauge and the loading gauge ) Headroom (audio signal processing) , the difference between the nominal signal value ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. vertical space available to allow easy passage under something [syn: headway , clearance ] the capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion [syn: dynamic headroom ]
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.