ceiling
noun
the overhead interior surface of a room.
subceiling
-
a word derived from
ceiling.
Example Sentences
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Its subceiling of 1,320 multiple-warhead launchers allowed the two sides "freedom to mix" land-based and submarine-launched MlRVed missiles.
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Toward the end of the summer, the policymakers began looking for a way to build into the Vladivostok limit of 1,320 total MIRVed systems a new subceiling just for land-based MIRVs, both heavy and light.
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Such a subceiling would make it all the more important that the U.S. be confident its spy satellites could keep an accurate count as the Soviets MIRVed more and more of their ICBMS.
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In other words, the Soviets would have to agree to count all the silos there under the U.S.-proposed subceiling for MIRVed ICBMS.
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In Geneva, Kampelman continued to press the Soviet negotiators for a subceiling on ballistic-missile warheads.
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