Interface or interfacing may refer to:
Academic journals
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''Interface'' (journal), by the Electrochemical Society
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Interface, Journal of Applied Linguistics'', now merged with ''ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics''
* ''
Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements''
* ''Interface'', shortened name for the ''
Journal of the Royal Society Interface'', covering the interface between life sciences and physical sciences
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''Interfaces'' (journal), now ''INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics''
Arts and entertainment
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''Interface'' (album), by Dominion, 1996
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Interface (band), an American music group
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''Interface'' (film), a 1984 American film
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''Interface'' (novel), by Stephen Bury (a pseudonym), 1994
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"Interface" (''Star Trek: The Next Generation''), an episode of the TV series
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Interface series'', a science fiction horror story in short installments on Reddit
Science and technology
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Interface (computing)
In computing, an interface (American English) or interphase (British English, archaic) is a shared boundary across which two or more separate components of a computer system exchange information. The exchange can be between software, computer hard ...
, a shared boundary between system components
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Interface (Java)
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Interface (object-oriented programming)
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Application binary interface
An application binary interface (ABI) is an interface exposed by software that is defined for in-process machine code access. Often, the exposing software is a library, and the consumer is a program.
An ABI is at a relatively low-level of a ...
, between two binary program modules
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Application programming interface
An application programming interface (API) is a connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software Interface (computing), interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that des ...
, between a client and a server
** Network interface, between two pieces of equipment or protocol layers in a
computer network
A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other devices, such as printers and smart phones. In order to communicate, the computers and devices must be connected by wired media like copper cables, optical fibers, or b ...
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User interface
In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine fro ...
, between humans and machines
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Graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows user (computing), users to human–computer interaction, interact with electronic devices through Graphics, graphical icon (computing), icons and visual indicators such ...
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Audio and video interfaces and connectors
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Interface (communication studies), in the work environment
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Interface (matter), in the physical sciences
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Biointerface, in inorganic and organic material
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Business interoperability interface, between organizational systems
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Social interface, a concept in social science
Other
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Interface, Inc., a flooring manufacturer
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Interface:2010, or Interface, an international-standard-setting body in marketing
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Interfacing, a textile used on the unseen side of fabrics for rigidity
See also
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Boundary (disambiguation)
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Interface area, where segregated nationalist and unionist areas meet in Northern Ireland
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