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:
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[edit] Computing
- Microsoft Windows, a family of operating systems
- DECwindows, a version of the desktop environment Common Desktop Environment CDE
- OpenWindows, a GUI for the Solaris Operating System
- Window (computing), a display rectangle used by a graphical user interface (GUI)
- X Window System, an underlying protocol for creating GUI windows
- Window, a data transmission period in computer networking
[edit] People
- Window Snyder, Mozilla Corporation security expert
[edit] Music
- "Window", a song by Fiona Apple from her album Extraordinary Machine
- Window (album), an album released by The Microphones in 2000
[edit] 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
[edit] Other uses
- Window function, in signal processing, a function that is zero-valued outside of some chosen interval
- Oval window and round window, two membranes between middle and inner ear
- Window (radar countermeasure), a radar countermeasure
- Windows (film), a film released in 1980
- 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
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