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Definitions for Windows

[1] any of several personal computer operating systems or environments featuring a graphical user interface.
[2] an opening in the wall of a building, the side of a vehicle, etc., for the admission of air or light, or both, commonly fitted with a frame in which are set movable sashes containing panes of glass.
[3] such an opening with the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or any other device, by which it is closed.
[4] the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or the like, intended to fit such an opening: Finally the builders put in the windows.
[5] a windowpane.
[6] anything likened to a window in appearance or function, as a transparent section in an envelope, displaying the address.
[7] a period of time regarded as highly favorable for initiating or completing something: Investors have a window of perhaps six months before interest rates rise.
[8] Military . chaff1(def 5) .
[9] Geology . fenster.
[10] Pharmacology . the drug dosage range that results in a therapeutic effect, a lower dose being insufficient and a higher dose being toxic.
[11] Aerospace . launch window. a specific area at the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere through which a spacecraft must reenter to arrive safely at its planned destination.
[12] Computers . a section of a display screen that can be created for viewing information from another part of a file or from another file: The split screen feature enables a user to create two or more windows.
[13] to furnish with a window or windows.
[14] Obsolete . to display or put in a window.
[15] a light framework, made of timber, metal, or plastic, that contains glass or glazed opening frames and is placed in a wall or roof to let in light or air or to see through Related adjective: fenestral
[16] an opening in the wall or roof of a building that is provided to let in light or air or to see through
[17] See windowpane
[18] the display space in and directly behind a shop window the dress in the window
[19] any opening or structure resembling a window in function or appearance, such as the transparent area of an envelope revealing an address within
[20] an opportunity to see or understand something usually unseen a window on the workings of Parliament
[21] a period of unbooked time in a diary, schedule, etc
[22] short for launch window, weather window
[23] physics a region of the spectrum in which a medium transmits electromagnetic radiation See also radio window
[24] computing an area of a VDU display that may be manipulated separately from the rest of the display area; typically different files can be displayed simultaneously in different overlapping windows
[25] (modifier) of or relating to a window or windows a window ledge
[26] out of the window informal dispensed with; disregarded
[27] (tr) to furnish with or as if with windows

Words related to Windows

bay, aperture, bow, fenestella, oriel, jalousie, dormer, casement, fenestration, fanlight, fenestra, lunette, skylight, porthole, lancet, lucarne, mullioned

Origin of Windows

1175–1225; Middle English windoge, windowe < Old Norse vindauga, equivalent to vindr wind1 + auga eye

Other words from Windows

win·dow·less , adjective
win·dow·y , adjective
un·win·dowed , adjective
well-win·dowed , adjective

Word origin for Windows

C13: from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr wind 1 + auga eye 1

Synonyms for Windows

aperture, bay, bow, casement, dormer, fanlight, fenestella, fenestra, fenestration, jalousie, lancet, lunette, oriel, porthole, skylight, bay window, lucarne, lunette window, mullioned, picture window, rose window