Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word INTERFACE

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Definitions of INTERFACE

1. The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
2. (chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
3. (computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
4. (computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
5. (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.
6. (biochemistry) The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
7. (transitive) To construct an interface for.
8. (ambitransitive) To connect through an interface.
9. (intransitive) To serve as an interface.
10. (business, intransitive) To meet for discussion.
11. (object-oriented) The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module,
12. (object-oriented) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.

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Examples of Using INTERFACE in a Sentence

• Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design.
• Since 2004, AGP was progressively phased out in favor of PCI Express (PCIe), which is serial, as opposed to parallel; by mid-2008, PCI Express cards dominated the market and only a few AGP models were available, with GPU manufacturers and add-in board partners eventually dropping support for the interface in favor of PCI Express.
• Adware, often called advertising-supported software by its developers, is software that generates revenue by automatically displaying online advertisements in the user interface or on a screen presented during the installation process.
• Parallel ATA (PATA), originally , also known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE), is a standard interface designed for IBM PC-compatible computers.
• A video game, also known as a computer game or just a game, is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.
• Computer Graphics Interface, the low-level interface between the Graphical Kernel System and hardware.
• CPAN can denote either the archive network or the Perl program that acts as an interface to the network and as an automated software installer (somewhat like a package manager).
• The terminal emulator Mintty is the default command-line interface (CLI) provided to interact with the environment.
• This motion is typically translated into the motion of the pointer (called a cursor) on a display, which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a computer.
• In computing, Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP or HTTPS user requests.
• A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation.
• The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent interface that treats an HTML or XML document as a tree structure wherein each node is an object representing a part of the document.
• A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs to access hardware functions without needing to know precise details about the hardware being used.
• In computer science, the ELIZA effect is a tendency to project human traits — such as experience, semantic comprehension or empathy — onto rudimentary computer programs having a textual interface.
• The Fresnel equations (or Fresnel coefficients) describe the reflection and transmission of light (or electromagnetic radiation in general) when incident on an interface between different optical media.
• A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders.
• Fly-by-wire (FBW) is a system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface.
• The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately fell into disfavor, yielding to Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
• HyperCard includes a built-in programming language called HyperTalk for manipulating data and the user interface.
• The history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade span of incremental refinements, built on some constant core principles.

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