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transfenestration

transfenestration noun: the act of smashing through a window.

Noun

transfenestration (countable and uncountable, plural transfenestrations)

  1. (rare) The act of smashing through a window.
    • I can see the thirst for new experiences, but a man’s better off sticking to a specialty, your own basically being transfenestration.1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Boston; Toronto; London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 7
    • A look into the world of Frenesi, for example, must be refracted through her daughter Prairie’s quest for her mother, and with her ex-husband’s Zoyd’s broken life, not to mention his transfenestrations.1998, Daniel Ray White, “Ecopoetics: Literary Ecology and Postmodernity”, in Postmodern Ecology: Communication, Evolution, and Play, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, section “Literary...
  2. (rare) A pathway through a fenestration.
    • The megakaryocyte nuclei rarely make the transfenestration journey into the sinusoids and thence the blood.1998, Colin A. Sieff, David G. Nathan, Steven C. Clark, “The Anatomy and Physiology of Hematopoiesis”, in David G[ordon] Nathan, Stuart H[olland] Orkin, Nathan and Oski’s Hematology of Infancy and...
    • […]rhythmia was due to exposure to transfenestration blood flow.2008, Shunji Uchita, Yorikazu Harada, Satoshi Yasukochi, Gengi Satomi, “Successfully completed total cavopulmonary connection with a right-sided maze procedure after a modified Starnes’ operation in...

Examples of transfenestration in a sentence

  • > >I'll be right down. (crashes through window) / > / > hey, you just put him out of work / what about transfenestration, let's get some of that going on1999 November 10, The Queen of Cans and Jars, “All I have is weight, all I need is rope”, in alt.edgar (Usenet):
  • The suggestion of smashed glass, of a transfenestration that would let a hotel burst into pieces, plays on the topos of the destroyed mirror-image.2000, Claudia Franken, Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker (Hallenser Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik; 7), Münster: LIT Verlag...
  • • Assessment of the Fontan pathway: ◦ Presence of fenestration and transfenestration mean gradient2022, Marc Gewillig, Luc L. Mertens, “Echocardiographic Assessment of Functional Single Ventricles after the Fontan Operation”, in...

Forms of transfenestration

pluraltransfenestrations

Origin of transfenestration

From trans- + fenestration.

Questions about transfenestration

What does transfenestration mean?
Transfenestration means the act of smashing through a window.
How do you use transfenestration in a sentence?
> >I'll be right down. (crashes through window) / > / > hey, you just put him out of work / what about transfenestration, let's get some of that going on
What part of speech is transfenestration?
Transfenestration is a noun.
What is the plural of transfenestration?
The plural of transfenestration is transfenestrations.

Words near transfenestration in the dictionary

  1. transfemme
  2. transfemmes
  3. transfemoral
  4. transfemorally
  5. transfems
  6. transfenestration
  7. transfenestrations
  8. transfer
  9. transfer agent
  10. transfer agents
  11. transfer DNA

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