interface
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Late Latin faciō
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Late Latin -iēs
Late Latin faciēs
Late Latin facia
Old French facebor.
Middle English face
English face
English interface
From inter- (“between”) + face (“shape, figure, form”).
Inflected forms:
form: interfaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: interfaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interfacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interfaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interfaced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
pos: noun
examples: Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.
gloss: A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
pos: noun
examples: The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
gloss: The connection between a user and a machine.
pos: noun
examples: The options are selected via the user interface.
gloss: The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
pos: noun
examples: The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface.
gloss: In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it.
pos: noun
gloss: The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
pos: noun
gloss: To construct an interface for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To connect through an interface.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To serve as an interface.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To meet for discussion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Let's interface on Wednesday.
Related words: mixin
trait
Derived words: 10-foot user interface
basic rate interface
biointerface
character user interface
command line interface
concrete interface
fluent interface
Gillham interface
graphical user interface
haptic interface
heterointerface
homointerface
human interface device
interfaceable
interface hypothesis
interfaceless
interface segregation principle
interfacial
marker interface pattern
nanointerface
natural user interface
network interface card
network interface controller
neurointerface
noninterface
non-virtual interface
non-virtual interface pattern
primary rate interface
pseudointerface
subinterface
superinterface
tagging interface
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تَعْشِيق
roman: taʕšīq
lang: Arabic
word: وَاجِهَة
roman: wājiha
lang: Belarusian
word: інтэрфе́йс
roman: interfjéjs
lang: Belarusian
word: інтэрфэ́йс
roman: interféjs
lang: Bulgarian
word: и́нтерфейс
roman: ínterfejs
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 接口
roman: jiēkǒu
lang: Cornish
word: ynterfas
lang: Czech
word: rozhraní
lang: Czech
word: styčná plocha
lang: Dutch
word: koppeling
lang: Dutch
word: aansluiting
lang: Dutch
word: raakpunt
lang: Esperanto
word: interfaco
lang: Finnish
word: liittymäkohta
lang: Finnish
word: rajapinta
lang: Finnish
word: yhtymäkohta
lang: French
word: interface
lang: German
word: Schnittstelle
lang: Greek
word: διεπαφή
roman: diepafí
lang: Greek
word: διεπιφάνεια
roman: diepifáneia
lang: Hindi
word: राब्ता
roman: rābtā
lang: Hindi
word: वास्ता
roman: vāstā
lang: Hungarian
word: határfelület
lang: Hungarian
word: illesztőegység
lang: Japanese
word: インターフェース
roman: intāfēsu
lang: Korean
word: 인터페이스
roman: inteopeiseu
lang: Macedonian
word: посредник
roman: posrednik
lang: Malay
word: antara muka
lang: Māori
word: arotuki
lang: Norman
word: întèrfache
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: grensesnitt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: grensesnitt
lang: Persian
word: رابط
roman: râbet
lang: Persian
word: واسط
roman: vâset
lang: Polish
word: styk
lang: Portuguese
word: interface
lang: Romanian
word: interfață
lang: Russian
word: интерфе́йс
roman: intɛrféjs
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: interfejs
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sučelje
lang: Sindhi
word: باهمرُو
roman: bāhmrū
lang: Spanish
word: interfaz
lang: Swedish
word: gränssnitt
lang: Swedish
word: beröringspunkt
lang: Turkish
word: arayüz
lang: Ukrainian
word: інтерфе́йс
roman: interféjs
lang: Welsh
word: rhyngwyneb
lang: Finnish
word: toimia rajapintana
lang: Greek
word: έχω διεπαφή με
roman: écho diepafí me
lang: Greek
word: διεφάπτομαι με
roman: diefáptomai me
lang: Italian
word: interfacciarsi
lang: Macedonian
word: посредува
roman: posreduva
lang: Polish
word: pośredniczyć