Fenestration

Definition: Fenestration

Fenestration

Noun

1. Surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis.

Specialty Definitions: Fenestration

Domain	Definitions
Energy	In simplest terms, windows or glassdoors. Technically fenestration is described as any transparent or translucentmaterial plus any sash, frame, mullion or divider. This includes windows, slidingglass doors, French doors, skylights, curtain walls and garden windows. (references)
	The arrangement, proportion, and design of windows in a building. (references)
Mechanical Engineering	Any area which allows light to pass in an external wall of a building. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Fenestration

Domain	Title
Books	Environmental factors in the design of building fenestration (reference) Fenestration (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Fenestration

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Printer's Industrial Welfare Building, W. 14th St. Fenestration.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Fenestration

"Fenestration" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fenestration" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	12	101,599

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fenestration

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
fenestration	30
council fenestration national rating	11
fenestration functional	4
fenestration national	4
fenestration magazine	2
fenestration industry	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fenestration

Language		Translations for "fenestration"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		fenestrering, vindnesareal, kofokirurgi. (various references)

Dutch		fenestratie-operatie, fenestratie (fenestration of the semicircular canals, fenestration operation), lichtdoorlatend buitenoppervlak, cofochirurgie. (various references)

Finnish		fenestraatio, ikkunapinta-ala, ikkunantekoleikkaus, aukontekoleikkaus. (various references)

French		fenestration (fenestration of the semicircular canals, fenestration operation), surface vitrée, ouverture (feedthrough), découpage d'une fenêtre, cophochirurgie. (various references)

German		Fensterwerk. (various references)

Greek		εφυαλωμένη επιφάνεια, θυριδοποίηση, διαφανής επιφάνεια. (various references)

Hebrew		אש� וב. (various references)

Italian		fenestrazione (fenestration of the semicircular canals, fenestration operation), superficie vetrata, disposizione delle finestre. (various references)

Pig Latin		enestrationfay

Portuguese		superfície vidrada. (various references)

Spanish		fenestración, ventanaje. (various references)

Swedish		fönsterarea. (various references)

Thai		การประกอบหน้าต่างของตึก. (various references)

Turkish		pencere düzeni, delme (boring, drilling, penetration, perforation, piercing, puncture), delik açma. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Fenestration

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fenestration": fenestrations. (additional references)
	Words ending with "fenestration": defenestration. (additional references)
	Words containing "fenestration": defenestrations. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fenestration" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fenestratino, fenetration, fenistration. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Fenestration"

Words rhyming with "fenestration" (pronounced 'Fen`es*tra"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Fenestration

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: entertains, orientates, retentions, stentorian, tenantries.
	-3 letters: anointers, entertain, fatteners, festinate, fetations, feteritas, firestone, foretaste, infestant, instanter, intonates, intranets, nonartist, orientate, reanoints, reinstate, retention, sententia, stationer, tanneries, tenorites, tensioner, transient.
	-4 letters: anisette, anointer, anserine, arenites, ariettes, arsenite, earstone, enations, enterons, entrains, entrants, entreats, fainters, faintest, farinose, fastener, fattener, fenestra, ferniest, fetation, feterita, fistnote, fontinas.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: fenestrations, fermentations, reinfestation.
	+2 letters: defenestration, frequentations, reinfestations.
	+3 letters: confraternities, defenestrations.
	+4 letters: antiferromagnets, differentiations.
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