CEIL CEIL Ceiling Function Usage Computes the ceiling of an n-dimensional array elementwise. The ceiling of a number is defined as the smallest integer that is larger than or equal to that number. The general syntax for its use is y = ceil(x) where x is a multidimensional array of numerical type. The ceil function preserves the type of the argument. So integer arguments are not modified, and float arrays return float arrays as outputs, and similarly for double arrays. The ceil function is not defined for complex or dcomplex types.