fenestration

1. 1.

   the arrangement of windows in a building

   Broaderplacement

   architecture

2. 2.

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

   Broaderoperation

   otology

Other forms of fenestration

plural

fenestrations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fenestration

What does fenestration mean?

fenestration means "the arrangement of windows in a building". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fenestration?

fenestration has 5 syllables: fe-ne-stra-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

Is fenestration a common word?

fenestration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.