ALL meanings of windows
Win·dows
W w - noun windows Plural form of window. 1
- noun windows 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. 1
- noun windows such an opening with the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or any other device, by which it is closed. 1
- noun windows the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or the like, intended to fit such an opening: Finally the builders put in the windows. 1
- noun windows a windowpane. 1
- noun windows anything likened to a window in appearance or function, as a transparent section in an envelope, displaying the address. 1
- noun windows 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. 1
- noun windows Military. chaff1 (def 5). 1
- noun windows Geology. fenster. 1
- noun windows Pharmacology. the drug dosage range that results in a therapeutic effect, a lower dose being insufficient and a higher dose being toxic. 1
- noun windows 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. 1
- noun windows 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. 1
- verb with object windows to furnish with a window or windows. 1
- verb with object windows Obsolete. to display or put in a window. 1
- noun Technical meaning of windows (operating system) See Microsoft Windows, Windows NT. 1
- noun plural windows denoting a VDU display in which some areas may be manipulated separately from the rest of the display area 0