Window (disambiguation)

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A window is an opening in an otherwise solid, opaque surface, through which light can pass.

Window may also refer to:

Aeronautics

• Launch window, in aerospace, a time period in which a particular rocket must be launched
• Chaff (radar countermeasure), during World War II, the dropping of aluminium foil by aircraft to deceive radar installations

Arts and entertainment

• Window (album), an album released by The Microphones in 2000
• The Window, a 1949 film based on the short story "The Boy Who Cried Murder" by Cornell Woolrich
• Window (short story), a 1980 science-fiction short story by Bob Leman
• The Window (song cycle), a musical piece by Sullivan and Tennyson
• "Window", a song by Fiona Apple from her album Extraordinary Machine
• "Window", a song by The Album Leaf
• Window (film), a 2005 film starring Louis Gossett, Jr.

Computing

• Window (computing), a display rectangle used by a graphical user interface (GUI)
  • X Window System, the system used by most Unix-like operating systems and OpenVMS
• A window in computer networking, a data transmission period, see Sliding Window Protocol
• Register window, a feature of some CPUs

People

• Window Snyder, former Mozilla Corporation security expert

Science and technology

Atmospherics:

• Atmospheric window (disambiguation), those parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that are not absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere
  • Radio window
  • Optical window
  • Infrared window
• Astronomical window

Biology:

• Window period, in medicine, the time between first infection and detectability

Electronics:

• In signal processing, the a window function used to condition a signal

Other uses:

• Window (geology) (or "fenster"), a hole in a thrust sheet through which the underlying rocks crop out
• Window function, in signal processing, a function that is zero-valued outside of some chosen interval
• Johari window, a technique to improve understanding of one's self and the perceptions of others.
• Overton Window, the range of political ideas the public will accept.

See also

• First window
• Second window
• Windows (disambiguation)
• Windowing (disambiguation)

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