interfenestrationn.
/ˌɪntəfɛnɪˈstreɪʃən/ Architecture.
The spacing of the windows of a building.
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1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 586 Inter-fenestration, the space between windows.
1846 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 9 329 The vertical interfenestration is not so good as the horizontal, owing to there being too many tiers of windows, and they are put too closely together.
1859 Building News V. 1136 Interfenestration—a term now suggested..as a useful correlative to ‘intercolumniation’, inasmuch as it refers to the spacing of the windows.
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