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active window
The currently selected window. Contrast with inactive window.
active window [¦ak·tiv ′win‚dō]
(computer science)
In a windowing environment, the window in which the user is currently working and which receives keyboard input.


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To minimize the currently active window press Alt and Spacebar.
When the shutters are retracted, enormous 20-foot-high by 15-foot-wide bi-fold windows--some of the largest active windows in the city--are revealed.
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