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From inter- (“between”) + face (“shape, figure, form”).
interface (plural interfaces)
- The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.
- (chemistry, physics) 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.
- (computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
- (computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
The options are selected via the user interface.
- (object-oriented programming) 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.
- (object-oriented programming) 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.
- (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).
- 10-foot user interface
- basic rate interface
- character user interface
- command line interface
- concrete interface
- fluent interface
- Gillham interface
- graphical user interface
- haptic interface
- human interface device
- interface hypothesis
- interface segregation principle
- marker interface pattern
- natural user interface
- network interface card
- network interface controller
- non-virtual interface
- non-virtual interface pattern
- primary rate interface
- tagging interface
- → Armenian: միջերես (miǰeres) (calque)
- → Japanese: インターフェース (intāfēsu)
- → Korean: 인터페이스 (inteopeiseu)
- → Russian: интерфе́йс (interféjs)
- → Kazakh: интерфейс (interfeis)
- → Turkish: ayarüz (calque)
point of interconnection between entities
- Arabic: تَعْشِيق m (taʕšīq), وَاجِهَة f (wājiha)
- Belarusian: інтэрфе́йс m (interfjéjs), інтэрфэ́йс m (interféjs)
- Bulgarian: и́нтерфейс m (ínterfejs)
- Chinese:
- Cornish: ynterfas m
- Czech: rozhraní (cs) n, styčná plocha f
- Dutch: koppeling (nl) f, aansluiting (nl) f, raakpunt (nl) n
- Esperanto: interfaco
- Finnish: liittymäkohta, rajapinta (fi), yhtymäkohta (fi)
- French: interface (fr) f
- German: Schnittstelle (de) f
- Greek: διεπαφή (el) f (diepafí), διεπιφάνεια (el) f (diepifáneia)
- Hindi: राब्ता m (rābtā), वास्ता (hi) m (vāstā)
- Hungarian: határfelület (hu), illesztőegység
- Italian: (2,3) (please verify) interfacciamento m, (all) (please verify) interfaccia (it) f
- Japanese: インターフェース (ja) (intāfēsu)
- Korean: 인터페이스 (inteopeiseu)
- Macedonian: посредник m (posrednik)
- Malay: antara muka
- Maori: arotuki
- Norman: întèrfache f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: grensesnitt n
- Nynorsk: grensesnitt n
- Persian: رابط (fa) (râbet), واسط (fa) (vâset)
- Polish: styk (pl) m
- Portuguese: interface (pt) f
- Romanian: interfață (ro)
- Russian: интерфе́йс (ru) m (intɛrféjs)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sindhi: باهمرُو (sd)
- Spanish: interfaz (es) f
- Swedish: gränssnitt (sv) n, beröringspunkt c
- Turkish: arayüz (tr)
- Ukrainian: інтерфе́йс (uk) m (interféjs)
- Welsh: rhyngwyneb f
computing: point of interconnection between systems or subsystems
- Afrikaans: koppelvlak (af)
- Arabic: واجِهَة (wājiha)
- Armenian: միջերես (miǰeres), ինտերֆեյս (interfeys)
- Azerbaijani: interfeys
- Basque: interfaze
- Belarusian: інтэрфе́йс m (interfjéjs), інтэрфэ́йс m (interféjs)
- Bulgarian: и́нтерфейс m (ínterfejs)
- Catalan: interfície f
- Chinese:
- Czech: rozhraní (cs) n
- Danish: grænseflade c
- Dutch: interface (nl) m
- Estonian: liidestus
- Finnish: rajapinta (fi), yhteys (fi)
- French: interface (fr) f
- Georgian: ინტერფეისი (inṭerpeisi)
- German: Schnittstelle (de) f
- Greek: διεπαφή (el) f (diepafí)
- Hebrew: מִמְשָׁק (he) m (mimshák)
- Hindi: इंटरफ़ेस m (iṇṭarfes)
- Hungarian: interfész (hu)
- Indonesian: antarmuka (id)
- Japanese: インターフェース (ja) (intāfēsu)
- Kazakh: интерфейс (interfeis)
- Korean: 인터페이스 (inteopeiseu)
- Kyrgyz: интерфейс (interfeys)
- Latin: interfacies f
- Latvian: interfeiss m
- Lithuanian: interfeisas (lt) m
- Macedonian: посредник m (posrednik)
- Malay: antara muka
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: grensesnitt n
- Nynorsk: grensesnitt n
- Persian: ربطال (fa)
- Polish: interfejs (pl) m
- Portuguese: interface (pt) f
- Romanian: interfață (ro)
- Russian: интерфе́йс (ru) m (intɛrféjs)
- Scottish Gaelic: eadar-aghaidh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sindhi: باهَمرُو (sd) (bāhamrū)
- Slovak: rozhranie n
- Slovene: vmesnik m
- Spanish: interfaz (es) f
- Swedish: gränssnitt (sv) n
- Turkish: arayüz (tr)
- Ukrainian: інтерфе́йс (uk) m (interféjs)
- Urdu: انٹرفیس m (inṭarfes)
- Uzbek: interfeys
computing: connection between a user and a machine
- Armenian: միջերես (miǰeres), ինտերֆեյս (interfeys)
- Azerbaijani: interfeys
- Basque: interfaze
- Belarusian: інтэрфе́йс m (interfjéjs), інтэрфэ́йс m (interféjs)
- Bulgarian: и́нтерфейс m (ínterfejs)
- Chinese:
- Czech: rozhraní (cs) n
- Danish: brugergrænseflade c
- Dutch: interface (nl) m
- Finnish: käyttöliittymä (fi), käyttäjäliittymä
- French: interface (fr) f
- Georgian: ინტერფეისი (inṭerpeisi)
- German: Schnittstelle (de) f
- Greek: διεπαφή (el) f (diepafí)
- Hebrew: מִמְשָׁק (he) m (mimshák)
- Hindi: इंटरफ़ेस m (iṇṭarfes)
- Hungarian: felület (hu), felhasználói felület (hu)
- Indonesian: antarmuka (id)
- Japanese: インターフェース (ja) (intāfēsu)
- Kazakh: интерфейс (interfeis)
- Korean: 인터페이스 (inteopeiseu)
- Kyrgyz: интерфейс (interfeys)
- Latin: interfacies f
- Latvian: saskarne f
- Macedonian: посредник m (posrednik), интерфејс m (interfejs)
- Malay: antara muka
- Malayalam: സമ്പർക്കമുഖം (sampaṟkkamukhaṁ)
- Persian: ربطال (fa)
- Polish: powłoka (pl), interfejs (pl) m, międzymordzie (pl) n (humorous)
- Portuguese: interface (pt) f
- Romanian: interfață (ro)
- Russian: интерфе́йс (ru) m (intɛrféjs)
- Scottish Gaelic: eadar-aghaidh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ѝнтерфе̄јс m
- Roman: ìnterfējs (sh) m
- Sindhi: باهمرُو (sd) (bāhamrū)
- Slovak: rozhranie n
- Slovene: vmesnik m
- Spanish: interfaz (es) f
- Swedish: gränssnitt (sv) n
- Turkish: arayüz (tr)
- Ukrainian: інтерфе́йс (uk) m (interféjs)
- Uzbek: interfeys
- Vietnamese: giao diện (vi)
interface (third-person singular simple present interfaces, present participle interfacing, simple past and past participle interfaced)
- (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.
Let's interface on Wednesday.
interface f (plural interfaces)
interface
- inflection of interfacer:
- “interface”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Borrowed from English interface.
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧fa‧ce
interface f or m (plural interfaces)
- interface (point of interconnection between entities)
- (computing) interface (point of interconnection between systems or subsystems)
- (computing) interface (connection between a user and a machine)
- (object-oriented programming) interface (piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:interface.