The Collaborative International Dictionary
Windowing
Window \Win"dow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Windowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Windowing.]
To furnish with windows.
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To place at or in a window. [R.]
Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down His corrigible neck?
--Shak.
Wiktionary
windowing
n. 1 The windows of a building; fenestration. 2 (context computing English) The use of a graphical user interface divided into windows.
Wikipedia
Windowing
Windowing may refer to:
- Windowing system, a graphical user interface (GUI) which implements windows as a primary metaphor
- In signal processing, the application of a window function to a signal
- In computer networking, a flow control mechanism to manage the amount of transmitted data sent without receiving an acknowledgement
- A method to interpret a two-digit year as a regular four-digit year, see Year 2000 problem
- Address Windowing Extensions, a Microsoft Windows Application Programming Interface
- A process used to produce images in a computed tomography (CT) scan
- A method of publication wherein a work is published on different media at different times (e.g. first in cinemas, then in on Blu-ray)
Usage examples of "windowing".
Kate sat opposite and looked intently into the big spectacles windowing her companion's eyes.
The lightened aircraft leapt into the air, and the last he saw of her was her pale face in the side windowing back towards him, and then the tree-tops cut them turn off from each other.