window

nom

1. 1

   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.

   She opened the window to let some air in.

   But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].

   A window is an opening in a wall to admit light and air.

   Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.

2. 2

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

   There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

3. 3

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

4. 4

   figuréA period of time when something is available or possible; a limited opportunity.

   launch window

   window of opportunity

   You have a two-hour window of clear weather to finish working on the lawn.

   But rescuers have a dwindling window of opportunity, with forecasters predicting the return of heavy monsoon rains in the coming days, effectively sealing off the cave until October.

5. 5

   figuréSomething that allows one to see through or into something.

   His journal provides a rare window into his otherwise obscure life.

   Then we read Spear's confrontational commentary on the "Richard Pryor Incident" from the Black perspective...and suddenly we began to feel that GCN's window on the Gay World was something we couldn't live without since no other Gay Media voice seemed so speaking.

   Leningrad, Russia's traditional window on the West, finds the world peering back in fascination.

6. 6

   A restricted range.

   In this case, a band-pass filter using a range or window of frequencies is appropriate to isolate the frequency or the group of frequencies that characterize a specific cycle.

7. 7

   A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying output and allowing input, often for a single task in a multitasking system.

8. 8

   A figure formed of lines crossing each other.

   till he has windows on his bread and butter

9. 9

   The time between first infection and detectability.

10. 10

    historiqueSynonym of chaff (“strips of material intended to confuse radar”)

11. 11

    A function multiplied with a signal to reduce spectral leakage when performing a Fourier transform.

12. 12

    A fenster: a geologic or tectonic window.

    […]the Hohe Tauern window. In the transverse depression between the windows, the Silvretta Nappe disappears almost entirely underneath the Oetztal Nappe. The southern margin of the Northern Limestone zone is formed by the "Greywacke zone" of[…]

verbe

1. 1

   To furnish with windows.

2. 2

   To place at or in a window.

   Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see / Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down / His corrigible neck?

3. 3

   To apply a window function to (a signal).

Formes

pluriel

windows

passé

windowed

participe passé

windowed

participe présent

windowing

3ᵉ personne du singulier

windows