Fenestration

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The word fenestration finds its root in the Latin word for window, fenestra.


Architecture
  • Products that fill openings in a building envelope, such as windows, doors, skylights, curtain walls, etc., designed to permit the passage of air, light, vehicles, or people.
  • With reference to people, the word defenestration refers to being thrown from a window.


Medicine


Podcasting
  • The MyMac podcast at MyMac.com contains a regular segment by David Cohen entitled Fenestration, which discusses aspects of using Apple Macintosh computers in a world dominated by PCs running Microsoft Windows.