Fenestration (noun)
Pronunciation: [fe-nê-'strey-shên]
Definition: (1) The arrangement and design of windows and doors in a building; (2) any opening in a surface such as a wall or membrane.
Usage: This is usually an architectural term referring to the disposition or addition of windows in a building or building design.
Suggested Usage: The term may be used to refer to making any sort of opening in any surface: The wall had been (re)fenestrated by the night's shelling." Like all other words, it is susceptible to metaphor: "It was a dense presentation fenestrated only by quips from the audience."
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