Fenestration

Fenestration

The word fenestration finds its root in the Latin word for window, "fenestra".

;Architecture

* Products that fill openings in a building envelope, such as windows, doors, skylights, curtain walls, etc., designed to permit the passage of air, light, vehicles, or people.
* With reference to people, the word defenestration refers to being thrown from a window.

;Medicine
* An opening, occurring naturally or created surgically, as through a membrane.
* A surgical procedure by which an opening is created between the inner ear and tympanum to replace fenestrae.
* Anatomic fenestrations, in sinusoid vessels

;Podcasting
* The MyMac Magazine podcast at [http://www.mymac.com MyMac.com] formerly contained a regular segment by David Cohen entitled Fenestration, which discussed aspects of using Apple Macintosh computers in a world dominated by PCs running Microsoft Windows. Since May 2008, the segment has been turned into a written column on the MyMac site, with original content still provided by Cohen.


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  • Fenestration — Fen es*tra tion, n. 1. (Arch.) The arrangement and proportioning of windows; used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions. [1913 Webster] 2 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fenestration — (n.) 1870 in the anatomical sense, noun of action from L. fenestrare, from fenestra window, opening for light, perhaps from Etruscan. Meaning arrangement of windows is from 1846. Related: Fenestrated …   Etymology dictionary

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  • fenestration — noun Date: 1846 1. the arrangement, proportioning, and design of windows and doors in a building 2. an opening in a surface (as a wall or membrane) 3. the operation of cutting an opening in the bony labyrinth between the inner ear and tympanum to …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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