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The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
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Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.
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A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
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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.
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The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
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The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
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The connection between a user and a machine.
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The options are selected via the user interface.
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The connection between parts of software.
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This interface is implemented by several Java classes.
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In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
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The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface.
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The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).