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windowing

windowing noun: the windows of a building; fenestration. Also the present participle and gerund of window.

Noun

windowing (usually uncountable, plural windowings)

  1. (usually) The windows of a building; fenestration.
  2. (usually) The use of a graphical user interface divided into windows.
    • NeWS was an early windowing system.
  3. (usually) The scheduling of the exhibition and distribution of a film, involving for example a period of theatrical showings before release on home media.
  4. (usually) The multiplication of a signal by a window function, restricting the signal to a specific time segment.

Also used as

windowing is also the present participle and gerund of window.

Forms of windowing

pluralwindowings

Origin of windowing

From window + -ing.

Words formed from windowing

Phrases with windowing

Questions about windowing

What does windowing mean?
Windowing means the windows of a building; fenestration.
What part of speech is windowing?
Windowing is a noun.
What is the plural of windowing?
The plural of windowing is windowings.

Words near windowing in the dictionary

  1. windowful
  2. windowfuls
  3. windowglass
  4. windowglasses
  5. Windowie
  6. windowing
  7. windowing down
  8. windowing out
  9. windowing over
  10. windowing system
  11. windowing systems

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Adapted from Wiktionary: windowing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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