Window (disambiguation)

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A window is an opening in an otherwise solid, opaque surface, through which light can pass.

Window may also refer to:

Aeronautics

  • Launch window, in aerospace, a time period in which a particular rocket must be launched
  • Chaff (radar countermeasure) (originally called Window), during World War II, the dropping of aluminium foil by aircraft to deceive radar installations

Arts and entertainment

Computing

People

  • Window Snyder, former Mozilla Corporation security expert
  • Muriel Window, (1892–1965), American actress, singer, vaudeville performer, businesswoman and Ziegfeld Girl

Science and technology

Atmospherics

Biology

  • Window period, in medicine, the time between first infection and detectability

Electronics

  • Window function, in signal processing, a function that is zero-valued outside of some chosen interval

Optics

Other uses

  • Window (geology) (or "fenster"), a hole in a thrust sheet through which the underlying rocks crop out
  • Johari window, a technique to improve understanding of one's self and the perceptions of others
  • Overton window, the range of political ideas the public will accept

See also