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footroom en · NOUN

Etymology

From foot + room.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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. (uncountable) Extra bandwidth for lower-than-expected values.
    • To accommodate footroom, the number representation must allow negative numbers. 2012, Charles Poynton, Digital Video and HD: Algorithms and Interfaces, page 45:
    • […] 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:
    • Footroom – the range of code values in the blacks of an image that encompass the variations in grain or noise. 2017, Steve Wright, Digital Compositing for Film and Video:

Coordinates

yardroom · headroom · headroom · legroom · elbow room · breathing room

Hypernyms

volume · room · space

Translations (1)

fi jalkatila (space for a person's feet)