interface
The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
Example
“Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.”
Other meanings
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 point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
“The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.”
A kind of
- surface
Kinds of interface
- oil-water interface
Related words
- basic rate interface
- network interface controller
- 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
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “interface” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.