Interface vs Connect - What's the difference?
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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
(of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
(of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
(of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
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, title= (of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
To associate.
To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
As a verb connect is
(of an object) to join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.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 .
Derived terms
* abstract interface * generic interface * marker interface * network interface * user interfaceVerb
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