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GUI

1 American  
[goo-ee] / ˈgu i /

noun

GUIs, plural GUI's plural
  1. graphical user interface.


Gui. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Guiana.


GUI British  
/ ˈɡuːiː /

acronym

  1. graphical user interface

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

GUI Scientific  
/ go̅o̅ē /
  1. Short for graphical user interface. An interface that is used to issue commands to a computer by means of a device such as a mouse that manipulates and activates onscreen images.


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A GUI is a visual display - allowing a person to interact with images and icons, rather than a display that shows only text and requires typed commands.

From BBC Mar. 21, 2023

Microsoft enabled Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 for developers last year, and features like this will be available immediately in the Microsoft Store in the future.

From The Verge Oct. 12, 2021

Safari is unbearable to use, as is iTunes which is stuck in the 90's with it's pathetic GUI.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 4, 2014

She wanted to get better at Java GUI programming, so she got a summer research assistantship at the MIT Media Lab.

From Slate Jan. 15, 2014

It's basically impossible to write an application for those systems that does not use the GUI, and the systems can't be used effectively from the command line.

From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John

"I am quite certain that the main target was Mr Gui. They wanted to prevent him from publishing that book," said Mr Lee, who was not privy to what the publisher had been writing about.

From BBC Nov. 10, 2015

“With this guy Buddy Gui. We’re the real thing.”

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

I might have more to say, but I am absorbed about La Gui. and her illness.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

This suggests many new design ideas for future GUIs, and they will slowly happen.

From Time Apr. 2, 2013

Those that consider GUIs bloat and think a good user experience involves green monospaced fonts on a pure black terminal window will not be pleased with the new Ubuntu.

From The Guardian May 1, 2010

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