Usually means: Upper interior surface of room.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ceiling: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ceiling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ceiling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ceiling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ceiling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ceiling, ceiling: Wordnik
  7. ceiling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ceiling: Wiktionary
  9. ceiling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ceiling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ceiling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ceiling: Dictionary.com
  13. ceiling: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ceiling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ceiling (aeronautics), Ceiling (aircraft), Ceiling (cloud), Ceiling (disambiguation), Ceiling, The Ceiling (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ceiling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ceiling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ceiling: Rhymezone
  19. ceiling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ceiling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ceiling: Free Dictionary
  22. ceiling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ceiling: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. ceiling: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Derivatives (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Ceiling: Investopedia
  7. ceiling: Legal dictionary
  8. ceiling: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  10. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ceiling (aeronautics), ceiling: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. ceiling: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ceiling: Easton Bible
  2. Ceiling: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ceiling: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)
  3. ceiling: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ceiling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ceiling: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ceiling: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. ceiling: Chapters in the Sky

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The overhead closure of a room.
noun:  The upper limit of an object or action.
noun:  (aviation) The highest altitude at which an aircraft can safely maintain flight.
noun:  (meteorology) The measurement of visible distance from ground or sea level to an overcast cloud cover; under a clear sky, the ceiling measurement is identified as "unlimited."
noun:  (mathematics) The smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number.
noun:  (nautical) The inner planking of a vessel.
noun:  (finance) The maximum permitted level in a financial transaction.
noun:  (architecture) The overhead interior surface that covers the upper limits of a room.

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