Definition of "vista" []

• A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees. (noun)
• An avenue or other passage affording such a view. (noun)
• An awareness of a range of time, events, or subjects; a broad mental view: "the deep and sweeping vistas these pioneering critics opened up” ( Arthur C. Danto). (noun)

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• "On top of it; in vista you have thumbnail previews; in win7 you have aero-peek embedded into it."
• "Windows has made, and is making, attempts to be more secure in vista, as you may have noticed, with running things in "Administrator Mode"."
• "I tracked these golden trees from high on the Bierstadt Moraine (named for western landscape painter Albert Bierstadt) where the vista is sweeping ..."