windowing.html - See: GO OUT THE WINDOW.

windowing.html - {n. phr.} An elaborate exterior, sometimes designed to conceal one's real motives. * /All those fancy invitations turned out to be nothing but window dressing./ * /All he really wanted was to be introduced to my influential father-in-law./

windowing.html - adjective (Business World) Of the security thread in a banknote : woven into the paper so that it is visible only in short stretches. Etymology: A figurative use of windowed, alluding to the fact that the thread is partially embedded and partially visible. History and Usage : Windowed threads were introduced in Bank of England notes in the mid eighties. It is...the only means of incorporating security threads in the 'windowed' form which has become a feature of Bank of England

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windowing.html - (Science and Technology) see window

windowing.html - noun (Lifestyle and Leisure) (Politics) A period of time, usually of limited duration; used especially in international relations and politics to refer to a limited period during which something may be achieved (a window of opportunity) or during which forces, weapons, etc. are vulnerable to enemy attack (a window of vulnerability). Also, by extension , a gap in one's timetable; a spare moment which can be earmarked for a particular activity. Etymology: Another figurative use of window, this time based on the idea that a window represents an opening in an otherwise solid wall. This sense grew out of a figurative use of window in space exploration: since the sixties, the short period of time during which a rocket or satellite can be launched if it is to reach the required orbit has been known as a launch window. History and Usage: The phrases window of opportunity and window of vulnerability date from the beginning of the eighties, when both were used by US negotiators in relation to the arms race between the US and the Soviet Union; both acquired a wider currency as catch-phrases during the eighties. This perhaps explains why, during the second half of the eighties, the word window became a fashionable piece of executives' jargon for a space in one's diary or Filofax; but it is possible that this is just a piece of visual imagery (referring to the small white space surrounded by the many appointments written in on the page). After the list come the cold calls, which White makes during the crucial half-hour 'window' from 11.45am to 12.15, when some of the initial frenzy has burned off the London markets. Sunday Express Magazine 26 Oct. 1986, p.
17 Instead of fixing the meeting, you are allowed to issue the delicious Coastal phrase, 'I'll leave you a window.' This hole in your schedule can then be cancelled a few days before the event, and you go through the motions all over again. Sunday Telegraph Magazine 19 July 1987, p.
39 Unexpected changes in price or volatility might provide sudden and short-lived windows of opportunity to reduce costs or generate profits. Energy in the News Third Quarter 1988, p. 10

windowing.html - noun
and verb (Science and Technology) noun: In computing, an area of the VDU screen which can be sectioned off for a particular purpose so that different functions can be carried out and viewed simultaneously in different parts of the screen. transitive verb: To place (data) in a window; to divide (the screen) into windows. Etymology: One of a long line of figurative applications of the word window for things which in some way resemble a window in appearance or function; in this case, the effect of so dividing the screen is to give the user the possibility of looking (as if through a window) into a number of different areas of memory at once. History and Usage: The earliest uses of window in computing relate to the facility for 'homing in' on a part of a drawing or other graphics so as to display only a portion of it on the screen; this was developed during the sixties. The idea of sectioning the screen for simultaneous display of different sets of data was worked on by Rank Xerox in the seventies (see WIMPÜ above); the first references to call such an area of the screen a window date from the mid seventies. For a short time in the seventies and early eighties, the term viewport (adopted from science fiction) was also used for a window in which a clipped portion of a drawing, or a formatted set of data, was viewed; by the second half of the eighties, though, window seemed to have taken over at least in popular usage. The adjective windowed and action noun windowing are also used. Thanks to my windowed terminal , I am simultaneously editing the source code in a second window. Datamation 1 Dec. 1984, p.
17 The screen can be windowed, and the cursor moved between two windows. Practical Computing Dec. 1985, p.
83 Thursday's...module opens with Mel Slater...talking on dynamic window management , multiple window nesting and the implications for hardware. Invision Oct. 1988, p. 26