interface

About 22.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The point of interconnection or contact between entities.

   Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.

2. noun 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. noun The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.

   The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.

4. noun The connection between a user and a machine.

   The options are selected via the user interface.

5. noun 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.

6. noun 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. noun In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it.
8. noun The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).

Similar words

user interface port interconnection link linkage interconnect interworking junction nexus connection

Often followed by

between is to and with of for in that

Word family

interfaced interfaces interfacial interfacing