window down
verb1
Misspelling Misspelling of winnow down.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To reduce in scope, resolution, capacity, bandwidth, etc. so as to enable or focus on a target.
window-down
nounalso spelled window-down1
A piece of graffiti covering a train, etc. from the base of the window downward.
- To bomb the system is to saturate MTA subway cars with one's signatures. ln the 1980s, certain writers were identified as bombers because they had mastered all disciplines of the form: insides, throw-ups, window-downs, top-to-bottoms, […]2002, Ivor Miller, Aerosol kingdom: subway painters of New York City, page 195:
- They saw Rimester near a light tower, one of the older writers, a black guy wearing a kufi, a skullcap, who did amazing wildstyle window-downs, Ismael had to admit—the letters decorated with love poems and sentiments of heartbreak.2011, Don DeLillo, Underworld:
- Related terms
- top-to-bottom