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round window

noun

  1. a membrane-covered opening in the inner wall of the middle ear that compensates for changes in cochlear pressure.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of round window1

First recorded in 1900–05

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Example Sentences

There lay a large heap of fresh, sweet-smelling hay, while through a round window in the wall she could see right down the valley.

This square window gives you a square reflection, and the round window a round reflection.

Through the small round window over my head the first rays of the rising sun darted and soon lighted the little cabin.

From a round window at the far end a ray of sun still swept in, but it was a sickly, faded ray.

The light from the round window was reflected from every corrugated wave of her painfully marcelled hair.

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