headroom

noun

head·​room ˈhed-ˌrüm How to pronounce headroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m
: vertical space in which to stand, sit, or move

Examples of headroom in a Sentence

He's looking for a car with a lot of headroom.
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With about 49 million subs in the region, there remains plenty of headroom for growth, which is no longer the case for the streamer in many other parts of the world as markets mature. Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2024 And Elite denotes both that these are high-end SoCs, delivering adequate headroom to enable a 10-year life cycle, Qualcomm has built a massive ecosystem for automotive that no other SoC vendor can match. Karl Freund, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 The OnePlus Pad 2 comes with a fairly spacious 256GB of storage and 12GB of RAM for a little performance headroom. Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2024 That will provide standing space for children, though, and will provide adults a little more headroom for crouching, whether to grab something out of the alcove, get changed, or otherwise stand on two feet inside. New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for headroom 

Word History

First Known Use

1762, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of headroom was in 1762

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“Headroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headroom. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

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