A ceiling having a type of water-based spray-on treatment characterized by a rough, lumpy texture.

(architecture) A vaulted ceiling that slopes upward from the walls, following the slope of the underside of the roof.

plural of ceil function

plural of ceiling function

Synonym of ceiling function

(mathematics) A function that maps a real number to the smallest integer that is no smaller than it.

(aviation) The maximum altitude above sea level that an aircraft or missile can maintain horizontal flight under normal conditions.

Especially in America, a social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a person of East Asian ethnicity.

A social barrier to consideration (by cisgender women) of transgender women as viable sexual partners. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cotton, ceiling.

(politics, economics) The limit up to which an entity (usually a government) is legally allowed to borrow.