A window is an opening in an otherwise solid, opaque surface through which light and sometimes air can pass. For example, a window can be in the wall of a house, or in a scientific measurement device that permits reading of certain wavelengths. Window is also used metaphorically to refer to a time period during which something can occur and outside of which the thing cannot occur, as in a window of opportunity to launch a rocket ...

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Window - Opening in wall
Window - Window styles Window - Technical terms
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Modern windows typically have insulated glazing, called insulated glass when made from glass, which for insulated glazing is usually double paned but might be triple paned. Modern windows are made from large sheets of glass while windows in the past were made from multiple panes held together by a grille within the sash. Such a grille is called "glazing bars", "astragals", "muntins", "muntin bars" or "mullions". Today, decorative muntin bars tend to be attached to the surface of the glazing or sandwiched between the panes of the insul ...

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Astronomical window: In astronomy, an atmosphere can have a window for portions of the electromagnetic spectrum; that is, those wavelengths which pass through the atmosphere are said to "pass through a window." Other related archivesastronomy, atmosphere, electromagnetic spectrum, wavelengths

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A window is a visual area, usually rectangular in shape, containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes. Windows are primarily associated with graphical displays, where they can be manipulated with a pointer. However, many programs with text user interfaces, for example Emacs, allow their display to be divided into areas whic ...

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In signal processing, a window function (or apodization function) is a function that is zero-valued outside of some chosen interval. For instance, a function that is constant inside the interval and zero elsewhere is called a rectangular window, which describes the shape of its graphical representation. When another function or a signal (data) is multiplied by a window function, the product is also zero-valued outside the interval. All that is left is the "view" through the window. Applications of window functions includ ...

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Window function - Spectral analysis
Window function - Discrete-time signals Window function - Total leakage
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Window function - High- and moderate-resolution windows Window function - Low-resolution high dynamic range windows Window function - Other windows
Window function - Multiple overlap windows
Window function - Triple overlapped cosine window

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Windows Write is a pre-WordPad small word processor that came with the Windows 3.x series. It can load both Write files (.wri) and early Microsoft Word files (.doc). It is similar to the modern WordPad, which was introduced in Windows 95, and like WordPad, Write is was more advanced than Notepad and was considered a modern word processor, but like WordPad, Write did not have the many features that makes Microsoft Word a true word processor Other related archivesMicrosoft Word, Windows

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The Windows 3.1x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems were released from 1992 to 1994. This family of Windows could run in either Standard or 386 Enhanced memory modes. The exception was Windows for Workgroups 3.11, which could only run in 386 Enhanced mode. Windows 3.1x - Windows 3.1. Windows 3.1 (originally codenamed Janus), released on March 18, 1992, included a TrueType font system (and a set of highly legible fonts already installed) which effectively made Windows a serious deskt ...

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Windows 3.1x - Windows for Workgroups Windows 3.1x - Full OS or MS-DOS shell?

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The window tax was a glass tax which was an important social, cultural, and architectural force in the United Kingdom during the 17th and 18th centuries. Glass making was costly and the use of glass for windows and other purposes was even costlier because of a tax levied specifically on it. The tax was introduced in 1696 under King William III of England and was designed to impose tax relative to the prosperity of the taxpayer. The bigger the house, the more windows it was likely to have, hence the more tax the occupants would pay. This is the reason for the bricked-up wi ...

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A window shutter is something like a door for a window, usually made of a sturdy material and often louvered, whose original purpose was to protect windows or the interior of a building from extreme weather conditions. A storm shutter called by some a curtainwall is a removable protective device for windows and doors in a residences or building against the effects of high winds, rain, and flying objects during a hurricane. They can be made of a variety of materials such as aluminum panels, iron, or even wood. Some are installed permanently and can be opened o ...

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Window film is transparent plastic film which is applied to automotive or flat glass windows for one or more of four purposes: privacy, heat or light rejection, security, or graphic design. Privacy films for automobiles are available in gradients of darkness, with the darker tints commonly known as "limo tint". These films also reduce fading of interior surfaces and fabrics. Privacy film for flat-glass commercial and residential applications may be silvered, offering an unimpeded view from the low-light side but virtually no view from the high-light side, or frosted, ren ...

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An X window manager is software that controls the placement and appearance of windows under the X Window System, a graphical user interface mainly used on Unix-like systems. Unlike the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms, which have historically provided a vendor-controlled, fixed set of ways to control how windows and panes display on a screen, and how the user may interact with them, window management for the X Window System was an afterthought. The user can choose between various third-party window managers, whic ...

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Windows-1250 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to represent texts in Eastern European languages that use Latin script, such as Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Romanian and Albanian. It may also be used with the German language; German-language texts encoded with Windows-1250 and Windows-1252 are identical. Windows-1250 is similar to ISO-8859-2 and has all the printable characters it has and more. However a few of them are rearranged (unlike Windows-1252, which keeps all printable characters from I ...

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Windows-1250 - Codepage layout

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Windows Blackcomb is Microsoft's codename for the successor to Microsoft Windows Vista and "Longhorn Server", originally announced in February 2000, but since subject to major delays and rescheduling. Windows Blackcomb - Development. The code name "Blackcomb" was originally assigned to a version of Windows that was planned to follow Windows XP (codenamed "Whistler"; both named after the Whistler-Blackcomb resort) in both client and server versions. However, in August 2001, the release of Blackcomb was pushe ...

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Windows 95 (codename Chicago) is a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit graphical user interface-based operating system released on August 24, 1995 by the Microsoft Corporation. Windows 95 is a direct result of combining Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products. Windows 95 is the first in that line without support for older, 16-bit x86 processors, thus requiring an Intel 80386 (or compatible) processor running in protected mode. It featured significant improvements to the graphical user interface (GUI) and underlying wo ...

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Windows 3.0 was the third major release of Microsoft Windows, and came out on May 22, 1990. It was the first widely successful version of Windows (see history of Microsoft Windows), enabling Microsoft to compete with Apple Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga on the GUI front. Windows 3.0 - Features. Windows 3.0 succeeded to Windows 2.1x and included a significantly revamped user interface as well as technical improvements to make better use of the memory management capabilities of Intel's 80286 and 80386 proc ...

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Windows 3.0 - The Multimedia Extensions

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The Windows API is the name given by Microsoft to the core set of application programming interfaces available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is designed for usage by C/C++ programs and is the most direct way to interact with a Windows system for software applications. Lower level access to a Windows system, mostly required for device drivers, is provided by the Windows Driver Model in current versions of Windows. A software development kit (SDK) is available for Windows, which provides documentation and tools t ...

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Windows API - APIs for interaction between programs Windows API - Wrapper Libraries
Windows API - History Windows API - Versions Windows API - Compiler support Windows API - Notes

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Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. The architecture complemented versions of Windows that were based on MS-DOS until 2001. Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are the latest versions of Windows NT, though they are not branded as such for marketing purposes. Windows NT - Development. When development started in November 1988, Windows NT (using protected mode) was to be known as OS/2 3.0, the third version of the operating sy ...

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Windows is a 1980 thriller starring Talia Shire, Joseph Cortese and Elizabeth Ashley, directed by Gordon Willis. Windows film - Plot. Emily Hollander (Shire) is the subject of a lesbian obsession at the hands of Andrea Glassen (Ashley), her next-door neighbor. As Emily begins dating detective Bob Luffrono (Cortese), Andrea overflows with jealousy, spying on Hollander through her own window. Windows film - Awards and nominations. Golden Raspberry Aw ...

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Windows CE (sometimes abbreviated WinCE) is a variation of Microsoft's Windows operating system for minimalistic computers and embedded systems. Windows CE is a distinctly different kernel, rather than a "trimmed down" version of desktop Windows. It is supported on Intel x86 and lookalikes, MIPS (see MIPS architecture), ARM family, and Hitachi SuperH processors. Windows CE - Features. Windows CE is optimized for devices that have minimal storage — a Windows CE kernel may run in under a megabyte of ...

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