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Type of clearance
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headroom
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Word definitions for headroom in dictionaries
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
__NOTOC__ In photography, headroom or head room is a concept of aesthetic composition that addresses the relative vertical position of the subject within the frame of the image. Headroom refers specifically to the distance between the top of the subject's ...
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.