The ordinance set an absolute ceiling on the land a family could own.

Investment bankers say $3 billion is the absolute ceiling, with some saying even $2.5 billion is too aggressive.

There was an absolute ceiling on the amount of tonnage which could transit through any wormhole junction.

We've got them at absolute ceiling height."

At the fourth screen it was worse; at the third he reached what he was sure was his absolute ceiling.

Three usages per scene are the absolute ceiling before a player must switch to another Trait or start taking Detriment Dice.

The absolute ceiling varies with the air temperature and, overall, the aircraft weight (usually calculated at MTOW).

But only one player, Rik Smits, hit the absolute ceiling for veteran limits; the Pacers center settled for $14 million a season.

Apart from mechanical unreliability, the main problem was tail heavy trim, an absolute ceiling of 9,500 feet and a rate of climb of only 300 ft a minute.

Instead of routing the program within a single computer, where the speed of light put an absolute ceiling on communication, he routed all the commands from one computer to another across the vast reaches of space.

While these airplanes' absolute ceiling is much higher than standard operational purposes, it is impossible to reach (because of the vertical speed asymptotically approaching zero) without afterburners or other devices temporarily increasing thrust.

At last they reached the absolute ceiling of the smaller ship, and it hung there while the Solarite went a few miles higher; then slowly, but ever faster and faster they were plunging ahead, gathering speed.

We've made a hell of a lot of advances since then, of course, in order to shoehorn the plants down to fit into pinnaces, but the way they're built puts a low absolute ceiling on their output.

Otherwise, his health care proposals follow more or less along the lines President Clinton has recommended, but Mr. Peterson would also place an absolute ceiling on how much the Government could spend each year on health programs.

The steadholders' armies of personal retainers had provided the core of trained troops for both sides in the civil war, and so Benjamin's Constitution had set an absolute ceiling on the personal legions his steadholders could thenceforth raise.

The absolute ceiling is the highest altitude at which an airplane can sustain level flight, which means the altitude at which the thrust of the engines at full power is equal to the total drag at minimum drag speed.

And as the surprised attacker shoved his power up and up, to his absolute ceiling of effort, the only result was to increase the already tremendous pyrotechnic display of energies cascading in all directions from the fiercely radiant defenses of the Tellurian freighter.

If we want to speak about a new regime of premium entitlements, we cannot base such a regime on an absolute ceiling, as the Commission proposes, but on a solution that is reasonable for all farms, a point that Mr Sturdy has already made.

Franchise Values Are Up, Up, Up One of the more vigorously debated issues during the labor standoff last season was the contention by the N.B.A. that more than half of its franchises were losing money, and hence the need to put an absolute ceiling on salaries.