headroom

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The basic physics give us a lot of headroom.

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vertical space available to allow easy passage under something

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noun

vertical space available to allow easy passage under something

noun

the capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for headroom.

noun

vertical space available to allow easy passage under something

noun

the capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion

Example sentences

The basic physics give us a lot of headroom.

If you still need a little headroom, you learn that you can turn off exceptions in g++.

You just don't have much headroom if you use languages like Ruby before you have to scale out.

Problem is, when you hit 1 billion users, you've run out of "exponential growth" headroom.

Those servers also run around 10-20% CPU which means we have quite a bit of headroom available.

Switching from Intel to ARM would be a step down in performance, or at least not a step up. There's no headroom for a legacy emulation layer.

The American grading system has a severe lack of dynamic headroom.

There is not much difference in perception to a normal customer between 50Mbit and 1Gb - the former manages two 1080p YouTube streams perfectly well with quite some headroom for extra misc traffic.

In these cases, if it weren't already clear from the above, I recommend seriously considering a higher-performance platform and framework that gives you the headroom to deliver responses under high load without necessarily resorting to crutches like a reverse proxy.