单词 | windowing |
释义 | windowingn.ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > fittings or ornaments of windows windowing1612 window treatment1874 window dressing1894 1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xiii. 95 Windowing and Monyons for windowes, which may be made and cast of white clay. 1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Balconáta, any windowing. 1827 A. Lyall Rambles Madeira & Portugal ii. viii. 239 It has a double range of cloisters, above and below, the windowing of which, if I may so call it, is peculiarly light. 2. In computer graphics: the process or action of selecting part of an image for display in a viewport. Cf. window n. 17a. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > monitor > display or screen > organization of windowing1968 paging1971 scrolling1971 1968 Proc. AFIPS Conf. 33 766/1 Windowing may..be performed by clipping, the process of discovering which portions of a drawing are within the window and computing appropriate scope coordinates for them. 1973 W. M. Newman & R. F. 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. 1981 Internat. Jrnl. Numerical Methods Engin. 17 1110 Only a segment of the first-level window may be delegated to second-level windowing; the rest should remain permanently in operational memory. 1999 D. Salomon Computer Graphics & Geom. Modeling iii. 89 Windowing is..an example of scaling and translation. 2016 IEEE Jrnl. Biomedical & Health Informatics 20 360/1 Another rendering mode is provided..which is supposed to be intuitive for users familiar with windowing of medical image data. 3. Originally U.S. The action, process, or fact of releasing a film, recording, etc., in two or more distinct windows (window n. 16d) corresponding to different media or formats, in order to maximize profit at each release and minimize competition between formats. ΚΠ 1992 B. M. Owen & S. S. Wildman Video Econ. 3 ‘Windowing’..[is] the practice of staggering release dates to various media in order to exploit opportunities. 1997 C. Hoskins et al. Global Television & Film 124 Windowing extends market reach through sequencing sales to different markets through time. 2003 Sci Fi Oct. 92/1 Something studio salespeople and network buyers call ‘windowing’... After running in theaters, most movies go to local video stores and pay-per-view television networks. 2016 Washington Post Blogs (Nexis) 3 May As distribution of music continues to splinter into several different platforms—iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Tidal—..the opportunity to use ‘windowing’ presents itself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1612 |
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