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window:A rectangle in page space that is used to specify a transformation between page and device space.

window extent:The width or height of the window.

window origin:The corner of the window from which the extents are measured. (The window-origin coordinates are specified with respect to the page-space origin.)

window procedure:A function, called by the system, that controls the appearance and behavior of its associated windows. The procedure receives and processes all input (messages) to these windows.

windows metafile:One of two metafile formats, the windows metafile format is the format which was used for applications written for Windows version 3.x. This format consisted of a header, and an array of metafile records.

Windows Time:The number of milliseconds since Windows started running. This time is recorded as a 32-bit value, so it rolls over to zero every 49.7 days.

world coordinate-space:The coordinate space in which all GDI drawing operations begin.