Interface vs Integration - What's the difference?
interface | integration |
The point of interconnection between entities.
(chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
(computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
(computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
(computing, object-oriented) The connection between parts of software.
(computing, object-oriented) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
to construct an interface for, to connect through an interface
to be an interface, to be into an interface
The act or process of making whole or entire.
(society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to 'visible' (ethnic, immigrant...) minorities
(calculus) The operation of finding the of a function.
(biology) In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development.
As nouns the difference between interface and integration
is that interface is the point of interconnection between entities while integration is the act or process of making whole or entire.As a verb interface
is to construct an interface for, to connect through an interface.interface
English
(wikipedia interface)Noun
(en noun)- Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.
- 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 .
- The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
- The options are selected via the user interface .
- This interface is implemented by several Java classes.
- The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface .