interface

  1. Noun.  The point of interconnection between two entities.
  2. Noun.  (computing) The point of interconnection between two systems or subsystems.
  3. Noun.  (computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
  4. Noun.  (computing) The connection between parts of object-oriented software.
  5. Noun.  (context, chemistry) A thin layer or boundary between two different substances or two phases of a single substance.
  6. Noun.  (computing) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) to construct an interface for, to connect through an interface.
  8. Verb.  (intransitive) to be an interface, to be into an interface.

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