Usually means: Rounds number up to integer.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. ceil: Merriam-Webster
  2. ceil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ceil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ceil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Ceil, ceil: Wordnik
  6. ceil: Wiktionary
  7. ceil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ceil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. ceil: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Ceil, ceil: Dictionary.com
  11. Ceil (math), Ceil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Ceil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. ceil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Ceil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. ceil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. CEIL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. ceil: FreeDictionary.org
  18. ceil: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ceil: Legal dictionary
  2. ceil: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ceil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ceil: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CEIL: Acronym Finder
  2. ceil: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ceil)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.
▸ noun:  (poetic) A ceiling.
▸ verb:  (mathematics) To set a higher bound.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) Abbreviation of ceiling. [The overhead closure of a room.]

Similar:
cap, dryline, beplaster, plasterboard, plaster, render, board, stucco, planch, calk, more...

Opposite:
floor, lower, descend

Types:
drop ceiling, coffered ceiling, cathedral ceiling, beamed ceiling, barrel ceiling, planked ceiling, tray ceiling, waffle, more...

Adjectives:
double, high, low, static, public, single, relatively, object, native, red, vaulted

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Similar:
cap, dryline, beplaster, plasterboard, plaster, render, board, stucco, planch, calk, more...

Opposite:
floor, lower, descend

Types:
drop ceiling, coffered ceiling, cathedral ceiling, beamed ceiling, barrel ceiling, planked ceiling, tray ceiling, waffle, more...

Adjectives:
double, high, low, static, public, single, relatively, object, native, red, vaulted



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