In tEr fes: A boundary across which
systems communicate.
- a surface forming a common boundary of two bodies, spaces, phases
or regions.
- the place at which independent and often unrelated systems meet
and act on or communicate with each other <the man-machine
interface>
- the point at which communication between machines or systems
can be connected.
- the means by which interaction or communication is achieved
at an interface. A device to interact or communicate with another
system component.
- the point at which the operation of different systems or the
interests of different groups overlap.
- a situation, way or area in which two things or groups can come
together and have an effect on each other.
- the overlap where two theories or phenomena affect each other
or have links with each other.
- a boundary or point common to two or more similar or dissimilar
command and control systems, sub-systems, or other entities against
which or at which necessary information flow takes place.
- the communication between a calling program and a subroutine.
- the physical or logical connection between a computer and the
user, a peripheral device, or a communications link.
- a program that controls a display for the user and that allows
the user to interact with the system [syn: {user interface}]
- graphical user interface: (GUI) a computer program that enables
a person to communicate with a computer through the use of symbols,
visual metaphors, and pointing devices. The GUI is now the standard
computer interface, and its components have become cultural artifacts.
- the equipment or programs used to communicate between different
systems or programs. Hardware and associated circuitry that links
one device with another The link between parts of a computer system,
or between two different systems varies from a simple cable connection
to an "intelligent" device which translates protocol.
An interface can be between hardware and hardware, hardware and
software, software and software, and human and computer [syn:
{port}]
Port: (Math.) A process of demonstration in which a general
truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of
which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that
each case is made to depend on the preceding one; -- called also {successive
induction}.
Surface \Sur"face`\, n. [F. See {Sur-}, and {Face}, and cf.
{Superficial}.] 1. The exterior part of anything that has length
and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper
face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the
surface of the body.
"The bright surface of this ethereous mold."
Milton
"The easy menu interaction views cooked data through predefined
windows"
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