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footroom

footroom noun: space for a person's feet, especially while seated.

Noun

footroom (uncountable)

  1. Space for a person's feet, especially while seated.
    • Drivers say there's insufficient footroom; the brake and accelerator pedals are mounted too close to each other; narrow, poorly cushioned seats lack sufficient thigh support; […]2012, Phil Edmonston, Lemon-Aid New Cars and Trucks 2013
  2. Extra bandwidth for lower-than-expected values.
    • […] the difference between signal-to-noise ratio and overload reserve (headroom) as well as noise (safety) margin (footroom).2000, Wolfgang Ahnert, Frank Steffen, Sound Reinforcement Engineering: Fundamentals and Practice, page 177
    • To accommodate footroom, the number representation must allow negative numbers.2012, Charles Poynton, Digital Video and HD: Algorithms and Interfaces, page 45

Origin of footroom

From foot + room.

Questions about footroom

What does footroom mean?
Footroom means space for a person's feet, especially while seated.
What part of speech is footroom?
Footroom is a noun.

Words near footroom in the dictionary

  1. footrail
  2. footrails
  3. footrest
  4. footrests
  5. footrim
  6. footroom
  7. footrope
  8. footropes
  9. footrot
  10. footrots
  11. footrub

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