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Look up: Window

  1. Window
    A wide band gap material chosen for its transparency to light. Generally used as the top layer of a photovoltaic device, the window allows almost all of the light to reach the semiconductor layers beneath.
    Found on http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/solar_

  2. Window
    Window is slang for an opportunity.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  3. Window
    Window is slang for an opportunity.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  4. Window
    Windows employed in classical architecture are usually rectangular openings without any internal splay, with architraves and other ornaments on the exterior, very similar to those of the doorways, but sometimes they have arched heads and occasionally small circular and semicircular windows are used.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  5. window
    [n] - an opening that resembles a window in appearance or function 2. [n] - an opening in the wall of a building (usually to admit light and air) 3. [n] - (computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen 4. [n]
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  6. Window
    A portion of a file shown on a screen, usually appearing as a menu on top of the current page of data.
    Found on http://www.testing1212.co.uk/a.htm

  7. Window
    Also known as Chaff - metallic foil strips dropped from bombers to give the appearance to German radar of mass formations of aircraft
    Found on http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/glossw.h

  8. Window
    A purpose made frame glazed and for fitment to a building or structure
    Found on http://www.caldwell.co.uk/glossary/gloss

  9. Window
    1. In a printed product, a die-cut hole revealing an image on the sheet behind it.
    Found on http://www.tso.co.uk/solutions/publishin

  10. Window
    A piece of glass with plane parallel sides which admits light into or through an optical system and excludes dirt and moisture. See also: Balconet, Balcony, Bay Window, Door, Dormer Window, Double Hung Window, Skylight.
    Found on http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/sour

  11. Window
    Alternatively known as 'chaff'. This was a device that was used as an effective 'jamming' technique. Thin strips of aluminium, about 21 cms long were dropped from an aeroplane and would create 'blips' on the enemy radar with the same dimensional characteristics as a real plane(s). The system was use...
    Found on http://histru.bournemouth.ac.uk/Oral_His

  12. Window
    In computer graphics, a defined area in a system not bounded by any limits; unlimited 'space' in graphics.
    Found on http://www.flowmeterdirectory.com/flowme

  13. window
    a building component normally in the form of a glazed frame which closes an opening in a wall or a roof; its principal function is to let in daylight Category: Building industry • an aperture produced in a silicon-oxide layer covering a semiconductor surface; used to define a diffusion m...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  14. Window
    Win'dow noun [ Middle English windowe , windoge , Icelandic vindauga window, properly, wind eye; akin to Danish vindue . ............. See Wind , noun , and Eye .] 1. An openin...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/40

  15. Window
    Win'dow transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Windowed ; present participle & verbal noun Windowing .] 1. To furnish with windows. 2. To place at or in a window. [...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/40

  16. window
    1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure. 'I leaped from the window of the citadel.' (Shak) ' Then to come, in spite of sorrow, An...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  17. window
    noun a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  18. window
    noun an opening that resembles a window in appearance or function; `he could see them through a window in the trees`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  19. window
    noun the time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something; `the expanded window will give us time to catch the thieves`; `they had a window of less than an hour when an attack would have succeeded`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  20. window
    (win´do) a circumscribed opening in a plane surface; called also fenestra.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  21. Window
    • (n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. • (n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of bein...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  22. window
    (from the article `computer science`) ...to an icon with a handheld device known as a mouse, have allowed millions of ordinary people to control application programs like spreadsheets and ... In late 1979 a group of engineers from Apple, led by cofounder Steven P. Jobs, saw the GUI during a visit to PARC and were sufficiently impressed ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/w/42

  23. window
    opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air; windows are often arranged also for the purposes of architectural decoration. ... [9 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/w/42

  24. Window
    A brokerage firm`s cashier department, where delivery of securities and settlement of transactions take place.
    Found on http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg

  25. window
    portion of a detector designed to protect the sensitive volume from unwanted outside influences and to allow penetration of the radiation to be measured
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/



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12 February 2012

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/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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