Link vs Interface - What's the difference?

In computing terms the difference between link and interface

is that link is the connection between buses or systems while interface is the connection between a user and a machine.

In transitive terms the difference between link and interface

is that link is to demonstrate a correlation between two things while interface is to construct an interface for, to connect through an interface.

As a proper noun Link

is a diminutive=Lincoln given name.

link

English

(link)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) , from (etyl). Used in English since the 14th century.

Noun

(en noun)

A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.

The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.

* Cowper

The link of brotherhood, by which / One common Maker bound me to the kind.

* Gascoigne

And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.

One element of a chain or other connected series.

The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.

The weakest link .

The link on the page points to the sports scores.

(computing) The connection between buses or systems.

A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.

(mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.

(Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.

* 2008 , Richard John King, A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex

They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link ," and lined with heath or straw.

(figurative) an individual person or element in a

* 2010 , James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry , AuthorHouse, page 32:

But know that God is the strongest link .

* 2010 , William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design , RockPort, page 262:

The fuse is the weakest link' in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable ' link in the system.

* 2010 , Stephen Fairweather, The Missing Book of Genesis , AuthorHouse, page 219:

. This is so that nobody can change the way every link must talk about the formula that I taught to make a real Chain of Universal Love and not a Chain of Love of a group or sect. ”

Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

a link of horsehair

(Mortimer)

(kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

(engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

(surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.

(chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

Holonyms

* chain

Derived terms

*(connection) cufflink, hyperlink, linkage, link farm, missing link *(element of a chain) sausage link * link-up * chainlink

Verb

(en verb)

To connect two or more things.

* Eustace

All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication.

(of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.

My homepage links to my wife's.

(Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.

Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.

(Internet) To post a hyperlink to.

Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!

To demonstrate a correlation between two things.

Derived terms

* link up

Etymology 2

Plausibly a modification of .

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.

*1854 , Dickens, Hard Times , Chapter 7:

*:You were coming out of the Italian Opera, ma’am, in white satin and jewels, a blaze of splendour, when I hadn’t a penny to buy a link to light you.’

* 1883 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"Give me a loan of the link , Dick."

(Shakespeare)

Derived terms

* linkboy * linkman

Etymology 3

Origin unknown.

Verb

(en verb)

(Scotland) To skip or trip along smartly.

References

Anagrams

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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