| interface | |
| 1. n. The point of interconnection or contact between entities. | |
| Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press. | |
| 2. n. (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. | |
| 3. n. (computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems. | |
| The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system. | |
| 4. n. (computing) The connection between a user and a machine. | |
| The options are selected via the user interface. | |
| 5. n. (computing, object-oriented) The connection between parts of software. | |
| 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 | |
| 6. n. (computing, object-oriented) 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. n. (biochemistry) The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface). | |
| 8. v. To construct an interface for, to connect through an interface. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To be an interface, to be into an interface. | |
