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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:

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

• Window, a 2005 film starring Louis Gossett Jr.
• "Window" (short story), a 1980 science-fiction short story by Bob Leman
• Window (album), a 1994 album by Christopher Cross,
• Window (EP), a 2000 EP by The Microphones
• "Window", a song by the Album Leaf from their 2004 album In a Safe Place
• "Window", a song by Fiona Apple from her 2005 album Extraordinary Machine
• "Window", a song by Genesis from their 1969 album From Genesis to Revelation
• "Window", a song by Still Woozy, 2020
• "Window", a song by Tyler, the Creator from his 2011 album Goblin

Computing

• Window (computing), a display rectangle used by a graphical user interface (GUI), or a text displayed at once among data of whole text
  • X Window System, the system used by most Unix-like operating systems and OpenVMS
• A window in computer networking, a data transmission period, see sliding window protocol
• Register window, a feature of some CPUs
• Microsoft Windows, a computer operating system

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

• Atmospheric window or Astronomical window, those parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that are not absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere
  • Radio window
  • Optical window
  • Infrared window

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

• Window (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

• The Window (disambiguation)
• Windows (disambiguation)
• Windowing (disambiguation)
• Window of opportunity
• First window (disambiguation)
• Second window (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages