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isherwood
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Window anatomy, by example

I am in the process of planning my first ever window replacement and am trying to understand the anatomy of a window, inside and out. Here are two photos (inside and outside) with some labels, and I am trying to understand what all of these labeled parts are called, and what purposes they serve:

Inside: enter image description here

Outside: enter image description here

So we have our table of labeled parts:

Part        What it's called        What it does
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A           Top Plate (?)           Gives the top part of the window something to nail to (?)
B           Side Plate (?)          Gives the side of the window something to nail to (?)
C           ???
D           ???
E           ???
F           ???
G           ???
H           ???
I           ???
J           ???
K           ???
L           ???
M           ???

Could someone please provide some course correction and steering here and let me know what all these parts are called and what it is that they do? What style of window is this? It is critical that I know this stuff for when I go to research the actual replacement (which is next). Thanks in advance!

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