verb
- to furnish with a ceiling; to cover the interior roof of a room or building
- (mathematics) to round up a number to the nearest integer greater than or equal to it
Usage: technical; computing
Examples
- The contractor will ceil the basement with drywall next week.
- We decided to ceil the old warehouse to improve insulation.
- In mathematics, the ceil function of 3.2 is 4.
- The programmer used the ceil method to round up the calculation results.
- They ceiled the entire second floor with acoustic tiles.