footroom

English

From foot ‎ room.

footroom (uncountable)

Space for a person's feet, especially while seated.
Coordinate terms: headroom, legroom
- 2012, Phil Edmonston, Lemon-Aid New Cars and Trucks 2013:
  Drivers say there's insufficient footroom; the brake and accelerator pedals are mounted too close to each other; narrow, poorly cushioned seats lack sufficient thigh support; […]
(signal processing) Extra bandwidth for lower-than-expected values.
Coordinate term: headroom
- 2000, Wolfgang Ahnert, Frank Steffen, Sound Reinforcement Engineering: Fundamentals and Practice, page 177:
  […] the difference between signal-to-noise ratio and overload reserve (headroom) as well as noise (safety) margin (footroom).
- 2012, Charles Poynton, Digital Video and HD: Algorithms and Interfaces, page 45:
  To accommodate footroom, the number representation must allow negative numbers.
- 2017, Steve Wright, Digital Compositing for Film and Video:
  Footroom – the range of code values in the blacks of an image that encompass the variations in grain or noise.

space for a person's feet