interface

The point of interconnection or contact between entities.

Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.

(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.

(computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.

The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.

(computing) The connection between a user and a machine.

The options are selected via the user interface.

(object-oriented programming) The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module.

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 method definitions, but they can also carry state through attributes, while traits usually don't.

(object-oriented programming) 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.

(object-oriented programming) In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it.

(biochemistry) The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).

(transitive)To construct an interface for.

(ambitransitive)To connect through an interface.

(intransitive)To serve as an interface.

(intransitive)(business, intransitive) To meet for discussion.

Let's interface on Wednesday.