Projecting from above a window or door or over a patio deck etc.
Awning definition window.
An awning window is a casement window that is hung horizontally hinged on top so that it swings outward like an awning.
Perhaps middle french auvans pl.
A window consisting of several top hinged sections arranged in a vertical series operated by one or more control devices that swing the bottom edges of the sections outward and designed especially to admit air while excluding rain.
Awnings are also often constructed of aluminium understucture with aluminium sheetin.
They are particularly useful for ventilation.
An awning or overhang is a secondary covering attached to the exterior wall of a building.
Awning definition a rooflike shelter of canvas or other material extending over a doorway from the top of a window over a deck etc in order to provide protection as from the sun.
In addition to be used independently they can be stacked several in one opening or combined with fixed glass.
A structure of canvas metal etc.
Of auvent a sloping roof from old provençal amban parapet of a fortification ing.
Definition of awning window.
As a protection from the sun or rain.
The configuration of this structure is something of a truss space frame or planar frame.