interface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntəfeɪs/
ipa: /ˈɪn(t)ɚˌfeɪs/
Forms: form: interfaces
Etymology: From inter- (“between”) + face (“shape, figure, form”).
Senses: examples: text: Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.
glosses: The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
examples: text: 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.
text: The surface of a lake is a water-air interface.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
examples: text: The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
examples: text: The options are selected via the user interface.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The connection between a user and a machine.
examples: text: This interface is implemented by several Java classes.
text: 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.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module.
examples: text: The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
Hyponyms: sense: (computing) connection between a user and a machine
word: command-line interface
sense: (computing) connection between a user and a machine
word: user interface
sense: (computing, OOP) connection between parts of software
word: abstract interface
sense: (computing, OOP) connection between parts of software
word: application programming interface
sense: (computing, OOP) connection between parts of software
word: generic interface
sense: (computing, OOP) connection between parts of software
word: marker interface
sense: (computing, OOP) connection between parts of software
word: network interface
sense: (computing, OOP) connection between parts of software
word: programming interface
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word: 10-foot user interface
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word: basic rate interface
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word: biointerface
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word: character user interface
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word: command line interface
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word: concrete interface
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word: fluent interface
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word: Gillham interface
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word: graphical user interface
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word: haptic interface
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word: heterointerface
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word: homointerface
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word: human interface device
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word: interfaceable
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word: interface hypothesis
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word: interfaceless
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word: interface segregation principle
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word: interfacial
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word: marker interface pattern
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word: nanointerface
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word: natural user interface
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word: network interface card
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word: network interface controller
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word: neurointerface
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word: noninterface
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word: non-virtual interface
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word: non-virtual interface pattern
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word: primary rate interface
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word: pseudointerface
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word: subinterface
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word: superinterface
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word: tagging interface