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Gas Fill:  A gas other than air, usually argon or krypton, placed between window or skylight glazing panes to reduce the U-factor by suppressing conduction and convection. Helps with insulating the window.

Garden Window:  A three-dimensional window that projects from the exterior wall and usually has glazing on all sides except the bottom, which serves as a shelf. Also called a greenhouse window.

Gasket: A pliable, flexible continuous strip of material used to affect a watertight seal between sashes and frame of roof windows much like the seal around a refrigerator door.

Greenhouse Window:  A three-dimensional window that projects from the exterior wall and usually has glazing on all sides except the bottom, which serves as a shelf. Also called a garden window.

Geometric:  Specially designed windows classified as either Straight Line Geometrics such as rectangles, triangles, trapezoid, octagons, pentagons, etc., or Radius Geometrics which include half-rounds, quarter-rounds, full-rounds, sectors, ellipses, eyebrows, etc.

Glass:  An inorganic transparent material composed of sand (silica), soda (sodium bicarbonate), and lime (calcium carbonate) with small quantities of alumina, boric or magnesia oxides. Available Styles: Clear, Bronze, Grey and Tinted. Glazing - The process of sealing the glass to the sash.

Glaze or Glazing:  Glazing material means glass, including annealed glass, organic coated glass, tempered glass, laminated glass, wired glass; or combinations thereof where these are used.

Glazing Bead:  A molding (often a strip of vinyl) or stop which surrounds the edge of the glass and holds it in place in conjunction with other sealants.

Glazing Compound:  A pliable substance applied between the window sash and the lights of glass to seal against the elements and sometimes to adhere the glass to the sash.

Glazing Stop: The part of the sash or door panel which holds the glass in place.

Grids:  Decorative horizontal, vertical or diagonal bars installed between panes to create the appearance
of the sash being dividing into smaller panes of glass.  Also known as muntins or grilles.