Window vs. Fenestration

Windownoun

An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.

Windownoun

An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.

Windownoun

(architecture) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.

Windownoun

A period of time when something is available.

Windownoun

A restricted range.

Windownoun

(graphical user interface) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.

Windownoun

A figure formed of lines crossing each other.

Windownoun

(medicine) The time between first infection and detectability.

Windowverb

(transitive) To furnish with windows.

Windowverb

(transitive) To place at or in a window.

Windownoun

An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.

Windownoun

The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.

Windownoun

A figure formed of lines crossing each other.

Windownoun

a period of time in which some activity may be uniquely possible, more easily accomplished, or more likely to succeed; as, a launch window for a mission to Mars.

Windownoun

a region on a computer display screen which represents a separate computational process, controlled more or less independently from the remaining part of the screen, and having widely varying functions, from simply displaying information to comprising a separate conceptual screen in which output can be visualized, input can be controlled, program dialogs may be accomplished, and a program may be controlled independently of any other processes occurring in the computer. The window may have a fixed location and size, or (as in modern Graphical User Interfaces) may have its size and location on the screen under the control of the operator.

Windowverb

To furnish with windows.

Windowverb

To place at or in a window.

Windownoun

a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air

Windownoun

a transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened

Windownoun

a transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material

Windownoun

an opening that resembles a window in appearance or function;

Windownoun

the time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something;

Windownoun

a pane in a window;

Windownoun

an opening in the wall of a building (usually to admit light and air);

Windownoun

(computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen

Window

A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the passage of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air. Modern windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparent or translucent material, a sash set in a frame in the opening; the sash and frame are also referred to as a window.

Fenestrationnoun

(architecture) The arrangement of windows and similar openings in a building.

Fenestrationnoun

An opening in the surface of an organ etc; the surgical creation of such an opening, especially one in the bony part of the inner ear made to improve hearing.

Fenestrationnoun

An opening that occurs naturally or is created surgically, as through a biological membrane.

Fenestrationnoun

(botany) Either a translucent area in a structure such as a leaf or flower petal, or an opening in a structure.

Fenestrationnoun

(nautical) The practice of placing holes in the rudder of a ship to reduce the work required to move the rudder while preserving its ability to steer the ship.

Fenestrationnoun

The arrangement and proportioning of windows; - used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.

Fenestrationnoun

The state or condition of being fenestrated.

Fenestrationnoun

the arrangement of windows in a building

Fenestrationnoun

surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis