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1A window in a spacecraft or in the conning tower of an oil rig.
‘Gradually the planet became larger through the viewports.’
‘The alien ship seemed void of any viewports or windows, and had no outward appearance of equipment or sensors of its own.’
‘The moon before them was now at starboard, and other large elliptical masses blocked the fore and top viewports along with numerous asteroids.’
‘When he turned his gaze once again outside his viewport, he started when he saw the sleek aircraft slide into position off the shuttle's left wing.’
‘Looking out of the viewports located at the front of the bridge, each ship sat silently, almost smugly, several kilometres away from the Levianthannic's bow.’
‘The twinkling vista of space was clearly visible through the viewports, the transparent and vastly reinforced glass preventing the escape of atmosphere into the void.’
‘She glanced out the viewport again, and made a double-take.’
‘He looked up at the viewport to see another flight of Tigersharks orient themselves for another strafing run.’
‘The transport shuntor dove under the Exeter, where its belly became a white ceiling with thousands of viewports and windows, replacing the stars.’
‘Tree branches crashed through the forward viewport and bulkheads flew around like dangerous missiles.’
2Computing A framed area on a display screen for viewing information.
‘Double-clicking on a viewport now fills the screen with the viewport for editing purposes.’
‘A quick command displays the scale factor for the selected viewport.’
‘Once the user releases the mouse, the box will be deleted from the screen and the viewport will change.’
‘The viewports display tiled, and AutoCAD asks you to select horizontal or vertical and where you want the odd-numbered viewport to be displayed.’
‘You may already have a paper space viewport on your screen with some of your geometry from model space shining through.’
‘Then the line boxes inside the paragraph can be displayed below that point, spanning 70% of the viewport.’
‘Now, go get your model, if you don't already have a paper space viewport displayed on your screen.’
‘The Opera browser handled everything I could throw at it in normal mode, where you pan around the page with the screen as a viewport.’
‘This code automatically loads the menu and a set of new dimensioning tools that works in scaled and locked viewport displays.’
‘All around, viewports and computer screens spider-webbed and exploded outwards, showering glass everywhere.’