graphical user interface

American  

noun

1. a software interface designed to standardize and simplify the use of computer programs, as by using a mouse to manipulate text and images on a display screen featuring icons, windows, and menus.

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graphical user interface British  

noun

1.  GUI.  an interface between a user and a computer system that involves the use of a mouse-controlled screen cursor to select options from menus, make choices with buttons, start programs by clicking icons, etc

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graphical user interface Scientific  

/ grăf′ĭ-kəl /

1. See GUI

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Example Sentences

Instead of the MS-DOS-like “command line” interface that the core app has, Cowork displays a more friendly, graphical user interface.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

The team have made their CNN accessible, providing a user-friendly graphical user interface that integrates targeted augmentation, streamlining the process into a comprehensive pipeline, from manual annotation to final proofreading.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2023

He likened it to the oft-cited Steve Jobs Xerox plant breakthrough: In the late ’70s, Jobs may have noticed a graphical user interface being underutilized by Xerox and suggested applying it to the Macintosh.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2023

Xerox is donating Parc, the research center that birthed the modern P.C., the graphical user interface and the mouse, to the nonprofit institute SRI International.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023

Abbrev. for `Presentation Manager', an elephantine OS/2 graphical user interface.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.