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win⋅dow

  [win-doh]
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–noun
1. 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.
2. such an opening with the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or any other device, by which it is closed.
3. the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or the like, intended to fit such an opening: Finally the builders put in the windows.
4. a windowpane.
5. anything likened to a window in appearance or function, as a transparent section in an envelope, displaying the address.
6. 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.
7. Military. chaff 1 (def. 5).
8. Geology. fenster.
9. Pharmacology. the drug dosage range that results in a therapeutic effect, a lower dose being insufficient and a higher dose being toxic.
10. Aerospace.
a. launch window.
b. 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.
11. 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.
–verb (used with object)
12. to furnish with a window or windows.
13. Obsolete. to display or put in a window.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME windoge, windowe < ON vindauga, equiv. to vindr wind 1 + auga eye

Related forms:
win⋅dow⋅less, adjective
win⋅dow⋅y, adjective
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chaff

1  [chaf, chahf]
–noun
1. the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.
2. straw cut up for fodder.
3. worthless matter; refuse.
4. the membranous, usually dry, brittle bracts of the flowers of certain plants.
5. Also called window. Military. strips of metal foil dropped by an aircraft to confuse enemy radar by creating false blips.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME chaf, OE ceaf; c. MLG, D kaf

Related forms:
chaffless, adjective
chafflike, adjective

fen⋅ster

  [fen-ster]
–noun Geology.
an erosional break in an overthrust rock sheet, exposing the rocks that underlie the sheet.
Also called window.

Origin:
1920–25; < G: lit., window; OHG fënster < L fenestra

launch window

 
–noun
a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
Also called window.

Origin:
1960–65
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win·dow   (wĭn'dō)   
n.  

    1. An opening constructed in a wall or roof that functions to admit light or air to an enclosure and is often framed and spanned with glass mounted to permit opening and closing.

    2. A framework enclosing a pane of glass for such an opening; a sash.

    3. A pane of glass or similar material enclosed in such a framework.

    4. An opening that resembles a window in function or appearance.

    5. The transparent panel on a window envelope.

    6. A launch window.

    7. An area at the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere through which a spacecraft must pass in order to return safely.

    1. An opening that resembles a window in function or appearance.

    2. The transparent panel on a window envelope.

    3. A launch window.

    4. An area at the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere through which a spacecraft must pass in order to return safely.

  3. The area or space immediately behind a window, especially at the front of a shop.

  4. A means of access or observation: St. Petersburg was Peter the Great's window onto the Baltic.

  5. An interval of time during which an activity can or must take place: a brief window of opportunity for a space mission; a window of vulnerability during which the air force was subject to attack.

  6. Strips of foil dropped from an aircraft to confuse enemy radar; chaff.

  7. A range of electromagnetic frequencies that pass unobstructed through a planetary atmosphere.

  8. Computer Science A rectangular area on the screen that displays its own file or message independently of the other areas of the screen.

  9. Aerospace

    1. A launch window.

    2. An area at the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere through which a spacecraft must pass in order to return safely.


[Middle English, from Old Norse vindauga : vindr, air, wind; see wē- in Indo-European roots + auga, eye; see okw- in Indo-European roots.]
Word History: The source of our word window is a vivid metaphor. Window comes to us from the Scandinavian invaders and settlers of England in the early Middle Ages. Although we have no record of the exact word they gave us, it was related to Old Norse vindauga, "window," a compound made up of vindr, "wind," and auga, "eye," reflecting the fact that at one time windows contained no glass. The metaphor "wind eye" is of a type beloved by Norse and Old English poets and is called a kenning; other examples include oar-steed for "ship" and whale-road for "sea." Recently we have restored to the 800-year-old word window a touch of its poetic heritage, using it figuratively in such phrases as launch window, weather window, and window of opportunity or vulnerability.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

chaff 
O.E. ceaf, from P.Gmc. *kaf-, *kef-. Chaffinch (Fringilla cælebs) is O.E. ceaffinc.

window 
c.1225, lit. "wind eye," from O.N. vindauga, from vindr "wind" (see wind (n.)) + auga "eye." Replaced O.E. eagþyrl, lit. "eye-hole," and eagduru, lit. "eye-door." Originally an unglazed hole in a roof, most Gmc. languages adopted a version of L. fenestra to describe the glass version, and Eng. used fenester as a parallel word till mid-16c. Window dressing is first recorded 1790; fig. sense is from 1898. Window seat is attested from 1778. Window-shopping is recorded from 1922. Window of opportunity (1979) is from earlier fig. use in U.S. space program, e.g. launch window (1965).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

window

A period of time during which an action can be expected to generate a successful result. For example, underwriters may have a window for corporate debt issues sandwiched between two periods of heavy U.S. Treasury offerings.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: win·dow
Pronunciation: 'win-(")dO, -d&(-w)
Function: noun
1 : FENESTRA 1
2 : a small surgically created opening : FENESTRA 2a
3 : a usually narrow interval of time or range of values for which a certain condition or an opportunity exists window of opportunity for transplantation —J. P. A. Lodge> window for language learning closes —HeatherLeed> —see THERAPEUTIC WINDOW
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

window win·dow (wĭn'dō)
n.
A fenestra.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Bible Dictionary

Window

properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light and air, covered with lattice-work, which might be opened or closed (2 Kings 1:2; Acts 20:9). The spies in Jericho and Paul at Damascus were let down from the windows of houses abutting on the town wall (Josh. 2:15; 2 Cor. 11:33). The clouds are metaphorically called the "windows of heaven" (Gen. 7:11; Mal. 3:10). The word thus rendered in Isa. 54:12 ought rather to be rendered "battlements" (LXX., "bulwarks;" R.V., "pinnacles"), or as Gesenius renders it, "notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun"= having a radiated appearance like the sun.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

window

see out the window.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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