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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:
Business
- Video window, the delay between a movie\'s theatrical and DVD release
Computing
People
Music
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
Other uses
- Window, radar countermeasure, during World War II, the dropping of aluminium foil by aircraft to deceive radar installations
- Window function, in signal processing, a function that is zero-valued outside of some chosen interval
- Window or "fenster" (lit. "window" in German) in geology, a hole in a thrust sheet through which the underlying rocks crop out
- Oval window and round window, two membranes between middle and inner ear
- 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
- Window (film), a 2005 film starring Louis Gossett, Jr.
See also
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