Fenestration
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The word fenestration comes from the Latin word for window, fenestra. In general, it refers to openings in a structure.
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[edit] Architecture
- Fenestration is the design and arrangement of openings in a building envelope, such as windows, doors, and skylights
- The word fenestration has been defined by the ISO 17025 certified test lab, Fenestration Testing Laboratory, as the "design and/or disposition of windows, doors, and other types of openings in a building or wall envelope"
- National Fenestration Rating Council provides information to measure and compare energy performance of windows, doors and skylights
[edit] Marine engineering
- Fenestration refers to the practice of placing holes in the rudder of a ship to reduce the work required to move the rudder without interfering with its ability to steer the ship.[1]
[edit] Medicine and Biology
- Fenestration means an opening, occurring naturally or created surgically, as through a membrane.
- Fenestra, one of the pores (fenestrae) in endothelial cells to allow rapid exchange between blood vessels and tissue
- Fenestration refers to natural holes in the leaves of some species of plants
[edit] Other
- Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
[edit] References
- ^ Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen. Science and civilisation in China: Physics and physical technology, Volume 4. p. 656. ISBN 0521070600. http://books.google.com/books?id=l6TVhvYLaEwC&pg=PA656&.
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