Window
Definition of Window
Win´dow n. | 1. | | | 1. | 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. | | 2. | (Arch.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. | | 3. | A figure formed of lines crossing each other. | | 4. | 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. | | 5. | (Computers) 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.Window shell | (Zool.) the window oyster. |
| v. t. | 1. | To furnish with windows. | | 2. | To place at or in a window. |
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