interface
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
interface/ˈɪntəfeɪs/
▶noun
- 1 a point where two things meet and interact.
■ chiefly Physics a surface forming a boundary between two portions of matter or space.
- 2 Computing a device or program enabling a user to communicate with a computer, or for connecting two items of hardware or software.
- 1 interact with.
- 2 Computing connect with (something) by an interface.
'interface' also found in these Oxford entries:
API
- application programming interface
- browser
- CGI
- command line
- FDDI
- graphical user interface
- GUI
- interfacial
- MIDI
- SCSI
- shell program
- stratopause
- total internal reflection
- tropopause
- user interface
- widget

