interfacenoun/ˈɪntəfeɪs/

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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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  chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA 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.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsThe point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.

  • The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
• 4

  computingengineeringmathematicsThe 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.
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  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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  biochemistrybiologychemistryThe internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).

interfaceverb/ˈɪntəfeɪs/

• 1

  To construct an interface for.

• 2

  To connect through an interface.

• 3

  To serve as an interface.

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  businessTo meet for discussion.

  • Let's interface on Wednesday.