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Interference vs Interface - What's the difference?

interference | interface |

As nouns the difference between interference and interface

is that interference is the act of interfering with something, or something that interferes while interface is the point of interconnection between entities.

As a verb interface is

to construct an interface for, to connect through an interface.

interference

English

(wikipedia interference)

Noun

  • The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
  • (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
    • They were glued to the TV, as the referee called out a fifteen yard penalty for interference .
  • (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves, such as a distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
    • They wanted to watch the game on TV, but there was too much interference to even make out the score on the tiny screen.
  • (US, legal) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
  • (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.

    • Antonyms

    * non-interference

    Derived terms

    * interference drag * interference filter * interference fit * interference fringes * interference microscope

    interface

    English

    (wikipedia interface)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The point of interconnection 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 .
  • (computing, object-oriented) The connection between parts of software.
    • This interface is implemented by several Java classes.
  • (computing, object-oriented) 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 .

    Derived terms

    * abstract interface * generic interface * marker interface * network interface * user interface

    Verb

    (interfac)
  • to construct an interface for, to connect through an interface
  • to be an interface, to be into an interface