absolute ceiling

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   the maximum altitude at which an airplane can maintain horizontal flight

   Broaderceiling

Questions about absolute ceiling

What does absolute ceiling mean?

absolute ceiling means "the maximum altitude at which an airplane can maintain horizontal flight".

Is absolute ceiling a common word?

absolute ceiling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.