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:

Business

• Video window, the delay between a movie's theatrical and DVD release

Computing

• Window (computing), a display rectangle used by a graphical user interface (GUI)
• The X Window System, an underlying protocol for creating GUI windows
• A window in computer networking, a data transmission period, see Sliding Window Protocol

People

• Window Snyder, Mozilla Corporation security expert

Music

• "Window", a song by Fiona Apple from her album Extraordinary Machine
• "Window", a song by The Album Leaf
• Window (album), an album released by The Microphones in 2000

Atmosphere

• Astronomical window, an astronomical term
• Radio window, the range of electromagnetic radiation frequencies that the earth's atmosphere lets through
• Atmospheric window, those parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that are not absorbed by the earth's atmosphere
• Optical window, that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that passes through the atmosphere to the ground

Other uses

• Window, radar countermeasure, during World War II, the dropping of aluminium foil by aircraft to deceive radar installations
• Window function, in signal processing, a function that is zero-valued outside of some chosen interval
• Window or "fenster" (lit. "window" in German) in geology, a hole in a thrust sheet through which the underlying rocks crop out
• Oval window and round window, two membranes between middle and inner ear
• Launch window, in aerospace, a time period in which a particular rocket must be launched
• Window period, in medicine, the time between first infection and when a test can detect that infection
• Window (film), a 2005 film starring Louis Gossett, Jr.

See also

• Windows

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