user interface

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

user interface (plural user interfaces)

1. (computing) The visual part of a software application that a user sees and interacts with.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Computers: Virtual Intelligence (VI) Codex entry:

     A virtual intelligence is an advanced form of user interface software. VIs use a variety of methods to simulate natural conversation, including an audio interface and an avatar personality to interact with.

Synonyms

• UI

Hypernyms

• interface

Hyponyms

• character user interface
• graphical user interface
• text-based user interface
• Web user interface

Translations

the part of a software application that a user sees and interacts with

• Bulgarian: потреби́телски и́нтерфейс m (potrebítelski ínterfejs)
• Catalan: interfície d'usuari f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 用戶界面 / 用户界面 (zh) (yònghù jièmiàn)

• Czech: uživatelské rozhraní n
• Dutch: gebruikersinterface (nl) m
• Esperanto: uzantinterfaco
• Estonian: kasutajaliides (et)
• Faroese: nýtslumarkamót n, nýtslumót n
• Finnish: käyttöliittymä (fi), käyttäjäliittymä
• French: interface utilisateur (fr) f
• Galician: interface do usuario
• Georgian: სამომხმარებლო ინტერფეისი (samomxmareblo inṭerpeisi)
• German: Anwenderschnittstelle f, Bedieneroberfläche f, Bedienoberfläche f, Benutzerschnittstelle f, Maske (de) f
• Greek: διεπαφή χρήστη (el) (diepafí chrísti)
• Hungarian: felhasználói felület (hu)
• Indonesian: antarmuka pengguna
• Italian: interfaccia utente f
• Japanese: ユーザインタフェース (yūza intafēsu)
• Korean: 사용자 인터페이스 (sayongja inteopeiseu), 유저 인터페이스 (yujeo inteopeiseu)
• Macedonian: кориснички посредник m (korisnički posrednik), кориснички интерфејс m (korisnički interfejs)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brukergrensesnitt n

  Nynorsk: brukargrensesnitt n

• Persian: رابط کاربری
• Polish: interfejs użytkownika (pl) m
• Portuguese: interface de usuário f (Brazil), interface do utilizador f (Portugal)
• Romanian: interfață de utilizator f
• Russian: по́льзовательский интерфе́йс m (pólʹzovatelʹskij intɛrféjs), интерфе́йс по́льзователя m (intɛrféjs pólʹzovatelja)
• Spanish: interfaz de usuario f
• Swedish: användargränssnitt (sv) n
• Turkish: kullanıcı arayüzü (tr)
• Welsh: rhyngwyneb defnyddiwr f

Further reading

• user interface on Wikipedia.Wikipedia