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▪ I. interface, n.|ˈɪntəfeɪs|
[f. inter- 2 b + face.]
1. A surface lying between two portions of matter or space, and forming their common boundary.
1882Bottomley Hydrost. 13 The term interface denotes a face of separation, plane or curved, between two contiguous portions of the same substance. 1883G. Chrystal in Encycl. Brit. XV. 264/1 The interface of the two liquids in the axial line.
2. transf. and fig.
a. A means or place of interaction between two systems, organizations, etc.; a meeting-point or common ground between two parties, systems, or disciplines; also, interaction, liaison, dialogue.
1962M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 141 (heading) The interface of the Renaissance was the meeting of medieval pluralism and modern homogeneity and mechanism. 1962Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 18 Aug. 1/6 Interface..seems to mean the liaison between two different agencies that may be working on the same project. Ibid. 1/7 The Defense Communications Agency..was made responsible for the resolution of interface problems. 1964A. Battersby Network Analysis viii. 116 Interfaces: events should be established at stages where the work passes from one department to another—these stages are known as interfaces. 1965H. I. Ansoff Corporate Strategy (1968) vi. 107 Functional organizations, such as research, development, finance, and marketing, have a strong interface with the outside environment. 1965Internat. Sci. & Technol. Oct. 30/1 The advantages of high-speed transport were piddled away at the nodes or interfaces: from bus to train, train to train, city terminal to airport terminal, check-in counter to loading gate, and so on. 1967Technology Week 23 Jan. 75/1 The interface across which the engineer-scientist and the biologist can interact is a broad one. 1967Times Rev. Industry Feb. 27/1 The third interface between government and the marketing system is with the intermediate firm supplying either other intermediate firms or the consumer. 1967Economist 16 Sept. p. ix/1 The North Sea and Channel ports form the biggest frontiers in world trade—or the biggest interface, in the language of the modern transport man, meaning the place where the greatest quantity of international cargo changes its mode of transport. 1970Nature 23 May 684/1 The interface between physics and music is of direct relevance to..the psychological effects of hearing. 1970Interior Design Dec. 767/4 Educationalists are convinced that the need for the interface of lecturer and student will not diminish. 1972Sci. Amer. Nov. 51/3 The issue of insanity as a defense in criminal cases..is at the interface of medicine, law and ethics.
b. (An) apparatus designed to connect two scientific instruments, devices, etc., so that they can be operated jointly.
1964Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. CXV. 574 The collection of components which connects the analog and digital computers to each other, and which controls and converts the data, is generally termed the ‘interface’. 1966Electronics 3 Oct. 130 If a flight carries special equipment, then modular interfaces can easily be designed to adapt the general-purpose computer to the equipment. 1973T. Allbeury Choice of Enemies xvi. 79 Programs are written in a computer language... If you wanted to use one of the IBM languages on an ICL machine, you'd have to have what's called an interface to make the two different things compatible. 1973Physics Bull. Apr. 242/3 Scobie and Wellum..have built interfaces for two pulse height analysers.
▪ II. interface, v.|ˈɪntəfeɪs|
[f. the n.]
1. a. trans. To connect (scientific equipment) with or to so as to make possible joint operation.
1969Computers & Humanities IV. 76 Professor Louis Delatte..publishes..various computer-prepared indices to classical texts, using a Selectric typewriter interfaced with his own local computer. 1969Physics Bull. Sept. 367/2 The prospect of interfacing each device specifically with each computer on each application becomes formidable in these circumstances in terms of effort and cost. This is avoided using the camac technique of interfacing the device to the dataway, via a module, and the dataway to the computer, via the controller. 1970Sci. Jrnl. Mar. 17/4 Their movements were monitored by a series of illuminated photoconductor cells, which were interfaced to the PDP-8/S computer. 1973Nature 6 Apr. 402/2 A ‘Perkin-Elmer 900’ and a ‘Hewlett Packard 7610A’ chromatograph,..interfaced with a ‘Perkin-Elmer PEP-1’ gas chromatography data system, were used. 1973Physics Bull. Apr. 240/2 The memory uses ‘static’ circuitry and no clocking is required which makes it easy to use and interface to any system.
b. intr. for pass.
1969New Yorker 11 Jan. 42 Inflated space units, which have to ‘interface’—a space-age verb meaning, roughly, to coordinate—with equipment in the cabin. 1971Physics Bull. Jan. 42/3 The minimum system can be attached to 16 devices..; the largest can ‘interface’ with about 2000 remote sensing/control devices.
2. intr. To come into interaction with.
1967M. McLuhan Medium is Massage 88 A strange bond often exists among antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are. This need to interface, to confront environments with a certain anti⁓social power, is manifest in the famous story ‘The Emperor's New Clothes’. 1968Lebende Sprachen XIII. 4/1 Before turning to a discussion of how this management system..interfaces with functional organization let us try to define what we mean by project management. 1973LSA Bull. Mar. 14 Mr. Hamp, the LSA delegate to UNESCO, reported on ways which he felt the Linguistic Society could interface with the United States National Commission. |