interface

Meaning of interface

noun
  1. The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
    Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.
  2. 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.
  3. The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
    The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
  4. The connection between a user and a machine.
    The options are selected via the user interface.
  5. The connection between parts of software.
    This interface is implemented by several Java classes.
  6. 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.
  7. The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
verb
  1. To construct an interface for.
  2. To connect through an interface.
  3. To serve as an interface.
  4. To meet for discussion.
    Let's interface on Wednesday.

Information about interface

Hyphenation of interface

in-ter-face

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • interface is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

interface synonyms

Meaning port:

port

Translation of interface

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