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interface

UK /ˈɪntəfeɪs/US /ˈɪn(t)ɚˌfeɪs/

noun 8
verb 4
forms 3

noun8

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The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
- Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.
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The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
- The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
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The connection between a user and a machine.
- The options are selected via the user interface.
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The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module.
- 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.
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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.
In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it.
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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.
- The surface of a lake is a water-air interface.
The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).

verb4

To connect through an interface.
To serve as an interface.
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To meet for discussion.
- Let's interface on Wednesday.
To construct an interface for.

forms

interfaced · interfacing · interfaces

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