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🏠 To add a ceiling 🔢 To round up
to ceil

to ceil

8.6
To round a number up to the next whole number
  • verb
  • /siːl/
  • Specialized
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  • If you ceil 4.3, you get 5 as the result.

Examples

  • The function will ceil any decimal value to the next integer.

  • To avoid errors, always ceil the calculated number of pages.

  • You should ceil the number to the nearest whole.

  • The teacher asked us to ceil our answers.

  • If you ceil 4.3, you round it up to 5.

  • The function will ceil any decimal value to the nearest whole number.

  • To avoid underestimating costs, please ceil the total expenses in your report.

Antonyms

floor
  • Specialized
31 5.2

A lowest allowed level for a price or wage

Surface Forms

ceil infinitive
ceiled past
ceiled past participle
ceiling present participle
ceils third person singular

Etymology

Ceil in math comes from the same idea as a ceiling, the top of a room, and it means to 'raise up' a number to the next whole one. So when you ceil 4.3 you get 5.