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Definition of Louver
1. Noun. One of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain.
Definition of Louver
1. n. A small lantern. See Lantern, 2
Definition of Louver
1. Noun. A slatted opening in a wall, door or window. ¹
2. Noun. Any of a series of narrow openings framed at their longer edges with slanting, overlapping fins or slats, adjustable for admitting light and air while shutting out rain. ¹
3. Noun. A fin or slat framing such an opening. ¹
4. Noun. A ventilating turret or lantern, as on the roof of a medieval building. ¹
5. Noun. Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Louver
1. a type of window [n -S] : LOUVERED [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Louver
Literary usage of Louver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"One of the boards or slats of a louver ; written also Louvre and Luffer Board.
... louver WINDOW. A window opening arranged as a louver in sense JÍ. ..."
2. American Steam and Hot-water Heating Practice (1895)
"louver IN VENTILATOR FOR TRAIN- SHED ROOF TO LET OUT SMOKE AND EXCLUDE SNOW. ...
There can be no louver designed which will ventilate a trainshed and at the ..."
3. Naval Hygiene by James Duncan Gatewood (1909)
"The specification change of air in a wardroom officer's stateroom is about once
in 8 minutes by its one louver, in the wardroom country in 12 minutes by ..."
4. The Weekly Reporter by David Sutherland, India High Court (Calcutta, India), Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1892)
"... the deuce having been improperly dealt with the louver Appellate Court ; and
we were ped either to remand the case for a new i between the same parties, ..."
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