interface
IPA: ˈɪntɝfeɪs
noun
- The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
- (chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
- (computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
- (computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
- (computing, object-oriented programming) The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module,
- (computing, object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
- (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.
- (biochemistry) The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
verb
- (transitive) To construct an interface for.
- (transitive, intransitive) To connect through an interface.
- (intransitive) To serve as an interface.
- (business, intransitive) To meet for discussion.
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Examples of "interface" in Sentences
- Note: If this interface is the Main CVC management interface for which you set an initial
- And even though the interface is awful compared to Apples, the software is much more flexible.
- After you create an interface in the IP section, the interface is available for other sections.
- Connection, location and device agnostic – the interface is the same irrespective of which computer and where I login to a cloud service
- In this case, the interface is attached to a small network with a gateway router and a few server hosts that run FTP, mail, DNS, and web servers.
- To use the analogy "to most users, the interface is the computer" he pointed out that with any paper we read the figure is the thing one remembers most and so the philosophy "to most viewers the presentation is the data".
- The show ospf config command displays configured settings for each interface, including the IP address of the interface, the area the interface is assigned to, and whether the interface is an active or passive OSPF interface.
- At his company's half-yearly financial results briefing today, Wesfarmers chief executive Richard Goyder said the auto-replenishment system, which he described as the interface between Coles 'systems and its supply chain, had been rolled out to 44 stores and was on track to reach a total of 200 stores by the end of the company's financial year in mid-2010.
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