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ˈwindowing [f. window n. + -ing1.] †1. The fittings or furniture of a window. Obs.
1612Sturtevant Metallica 85 To make windowing of the pure mettle of Venice-glasse. Ibid. 95 Windowing and Monyons for windowes, which may be made and cast of white clay. 1659Torriano, Balconáta, any windowing. 2. Computers. The process of selecting part of a stored image for display or enlargement.
1969S. Bird in Parslow & Prowse Computer Graphics i. 20 The display file is produced from the data structure by the display program package and the transformations such as expansion..and ‘windowing’ are carried out in the process. 1973Newman & Sproull Princ. Interactive Computer Graphics viii. 154 In the case of the windowing routine, there are various ways in which the page-to-screen transformations may be defined: one obvious way is to specify window and viewport boundaries. 1981Internat. Jrnl. Numerical Methods Engin. XVII. 1110 Only a segment of the first-level window may be delegated to second-level windowing; the rest should remain permanently in operational memory. 1985Personal Computer World Feb. 165/1 It includes functions to deal with the more esoteric of the QL's facilities, such as windowing and general screen-handling. |