Crossword clues for fenestration
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fenestration \Fen`es*tra"tion\, n.
(Arch.) The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.
(Anat.) The state or condition of being fenestrated.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1870 in the anatomical sense, noun of action from Latin fenestrare, from fenestra "window, opening for light," a word perhaps from Etruscan. Meaning "arrangement of windows" as a design element in architecture is from 1846. Related: Fenestrated.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context architecture English) The arrangement of windows and other openings in a building. 2 (context surgery English) An opening in the surface of an organ etc; the surgical creation of such an opening, especially one in the bony part of the inner ear made to improve hearing. 3 (context surgery English) An opening that occurs naturally or is created surgically, as through a biological membrane. 4 (context botany English) An opening through a leaf or along a stem of a plant. 5 (context nautical English) The practice of placing holes in the rudder of a ship to reduce the work required to move the rudder while preserving its ability to steer the ship.
WordNet
n. the arrangement of windows in a building
surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis
Wikipedia
Fenestration may refer to :
Usage examples of "fenestration".
A rope with a bolt attached had been flung across and had caught in a fenestration of a projecting fragment of railing.
Julius Lempert, who had invented the Lempert or fenestration operation, a delicate piece of surgery in which a new opening or window is bored through the mastoid bone and a new drum grafted over the aperture.
From the frail, dreamy youth who showed such extraordinary guts when he had his fenestration operation, he has become an extremely competent, managerial sort of holy man with a talent for the ceremonial aspect of his services.
Lavic architecture to causal decoupling to the journeys of the Tycho or fenestration, or free will, or the dangers of ohrworms and information viruses.
After throwing open every gate, door and fenestration, the people danced in the streets.
Dripstone molding surmounted every portal and fenestration, fashioned in curious designs both rich and elegant.
Caves, dark fenestrations, peered like impenetrable black eyes down upon me.
As the two Masters, followed by the assistant, strode toward the circuit-exit to meet him, a ball of flame erupted from one of the grilled fenestrations of the wizard-hall, accompanied by a thunderous roar.
The windows of the internal buildings had been enlarged from cross-slitted arrow-loops and narrow arches to gracious fenestrations of latticed glass, and greater opulence reigned within them than in former days.
The fenestrations fretted in the gale, the panes rattling in their metal grooves like prisoners shaking the bars of their cells.
Between these fenestrations soared slender golden pillars twined with living ivy leaves and carved ones of peridot, jade, and emerald.