interface
Pronunciation: /ˈɪntəfeɪs/
The English word “interface” has 12 meanings listed here.
noun
- The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
- A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
- The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
- The connection between a user and a machine.
- The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module.
- In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
- In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it.
- The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
verb
- To construct an interface for.
- To connect through an interface.
- To serve as an interface.
- To meet for discussion.
Etymology
From inter- (“between”) + face (“shape, figure, form”).
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