combat ceiling

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   altitude above which a plane cannot climb faster than a given rate

   Synonymsservice ceiling

   Broaderceiling

Questions about combat ceiling

What does combat ceiling mean?

combat ceiling means "altitude above which a plane cannot climb faster than a given rate".

What is another word for combat ceiling?

Close synonyms include service ceiling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is combat ceiling a common word?

combat 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.