1. Plural of Window. Highly decorative Window in a Japanese Onsen in Hakone A window is an opening in an otherwise solid, opaque surface through which light and air can pass. ...
2. Computer programs which contain windows in their name are,
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Later, various types of windows were invented that allowed light but not weather to pass into a building: mullioned glasswindows, which joined multiple small pieces of glass with leading, paperwindows, flattened pieces of translucent animal horn, and plates of thinly sliced marble.
Mullioned glasswindows were the windows of choice among European well-to-do, whereas paperwindows were economical and widely used in ancient China and Japan.
In England, glass became common in the windows of ordinary homes only in the early 17th century whereas windows made up of panes of flattened animal horn were used as early as the 14th century in Northern Britain.
In general, wood windows, which consist of the window sash inside of a wooden frame, similar to a door, will require a rough opening that is two inches wider and two inches higher than the size of the window.
Windows play a prominent part of the appearance of any style of architecture, and one of the most distinctive features of the traditional style home is a divided lite window real or simulated.
True divided lite windows are manufactured using essentially the same process as of the windows of yesteryear a solid wood frame is broken up into squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, or other regular geometric shapes using interlocking wood strips, and individual panes of glass are fit into the openings.