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 .

Noun

(en noun)

A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.

* (William Shakespeare)

Your leavy screens throw down.

* (Francis Bacon)

Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.

The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output.

* 1977 , Sex Pistols, Spunk , “Problems”:

You won't find me living for the screen .

The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen , and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}

One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.

* 1988 , Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry'' (video game review) in ''Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988

The idea is to reach the 21st level of an enormous network of interlocking screens , each of which is covered with blocks that you bounce along on.

(basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

(baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects

In mining and quarries, a frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.

(printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.

(nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.

(architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.