Interactive vs Interface - What's the difference?
interactive | interface |
Acting with each other.
(computer science) Responding to the user.
A feature (as in a museum) that can be interacted with.
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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
As an adjective interactive
is acting with each other.As a noun interactive
is a feature (as in a museum) that can be interacted with.interactive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Two interactive systems.
- Interactive user interface
Derived terms
* interaction * interactivityNoun
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interface
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(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 .