Definitions for fenestration

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fenestration fen·es·tra·tion

Spelling: [fen-uh-strey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌfɛn əˈstreɪ ʃən/

Fenestration is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1424 anagrams from letters in fenestration (aeefinnorstt).

Definitions for fenestration

noun

1. the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
2. Furniture. an ornamental motif having the form of a blind arcade or arch, as in medieval cabinetwork.
3. Medicine/Medical, Surgery. a perforation in a structure. an operation to effect such an opening. Also called fenestration operation, Lempert operation. the creation of an artificial opening into the labyrinth of the ear to restore hearing loss from otosclerosis.

Origin of fenestration

1840-50; Latin fenestrāt(us) (see fenestrated) + -ion

Examples for fenestration

Beautifully tooled, light stone lintels with fine-scale radial scorings greatly enhance the beauty of the fenestration.

The fenestration differs in several respects from that of similar houses erected a quarter century later.

This change in the fenestration restored the building to its appearance as shown in Civil War photographs of the courthouse.

The fenestration of this cathedral of St. Louis reign shows the national art in its prime.

It is formed by a fenestration of a primitively continuous cartilaginous coracoid plate (Hoffmann).

A rope with a bolt attached had been flung across and had caught in a fenestration of a projecting fragment of railing.