# interface
## English
### Etymology

From inter- (“between”) +‎ face (“shape, figure, form”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɪntəfeɪs/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈɪn(t)ɚˌfeɪs/
* Hyphenation: inter‧face

### Noun

interface (plural interfaces)
* The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
    Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.
* (chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
    If water and oil are mixed together, they tend to separate, and at equilibrium they are in different strata with an oil-water interface in between.
    The surface of a lake is a water-air interface.
* (computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
    The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
* (computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
    The options are selected via the user interface.
* (object-oriented programming) The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module,
    This interface is implemented by several Java classes.
    Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin, as an interface contains only method signatures, while a trait includes also the full method definitions; on the other side mixins include method definitions, but they can also carry state through attributes, while traits usually don't.
* (object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
    The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface.
* (object-oriented programming) In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it.
* (biochemistry) The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).

#### Hyponyms

* command-line interface
* user interface
* abstract interface
* application programming interface
* generic interface
* marker interface
* network interface
* programming interface

#### Derived terms

* 10-foot user interface
* basic rate interface
* character user interface
* command line interface
* concrete interface
* fluent interface
* Gillham interface
* graphical user interface
* haptic interface
* human interface device
* interface hypothesis
* interface segregation principle
* marker interface pattern
* natural user interface
* network interface card
* network interface controller
* non-virtual interface
* non-virtual interface pattern
* primary rate interface
* tagging interface

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: միջերես (miǰeres) (calque)
* → Japanese: インターフェース (intāfēsu)
* → Korean: 인터페이스 (inteopeiseu)
* → Russian: интерфе́йс (interféjs)
** → Kazakh: интерфейс (interfeis)
* → Turkish: ayarüz (calque)

#### References

* interface on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Verb

interface (third-person singular simple present interfaces, present participle interfacing, simple past and past participle interfaced)
* (transitive) To construct an interface for.
* (ambitransitive) To connect through an interface.
* (intransitive) To serve as an interface.
* (business, intransitive) To meet for discussion.
    Let's interface on Wednesday.

#### Translations
### See also

* mixin
* trait

### Anagrams

* re infecta

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fas/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

interface f (plural interfaces)
* interface
* (object-oriented programming) interface

### Verb

interface
* inflection of interfacer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “interface”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English interface.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌĩ.teɾˈfa.si/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌĩ.teɾˈfa.si/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˌĩ.teɾˈfa.se/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˌĩ.tɛɾˈfa.sɨ/
* Hyphenation: in‧ter‧fa‧ce

### Noun

interface f or m (plural interfaces)
* interface (point of interconnection between entities)
* (computing) interface (point of interconnection between systems or subsystems)
* (computing) interface (connection between a user and a machine)
* (object-oriented programming) interface (piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement)

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:interface.