footroom

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noun

Space for a person's feet, especially while seated.

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Meanings

nounfootroom (uncountable)
  1. uncountableSpace 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. uncountablecomputingExtra 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
    2 more examples

    […] 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

Origin

From foot + room.

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Translations

Finnish jalkatila
  • jalkatilaspace for a person's feet
Cite this entry
APA

footroom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footroom

MLA

“footroom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footroom. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “footroom,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footroom.

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