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GUI

1 American  
[goo-ee] / ˈgu i /

noun

plural

GUIs, GUI's

  1. graphical user interface.

Gui. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Guiana.

GUI British  
/ ˈɡuːiː /

acronym

  1. graphical user interface

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GUI Scientific  
/ go̅o̅′ē /

  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 is late to the party here, but its subsystem is clearly the result of years of work to extend Windows to running Linux kernels and GUI apps.

From The Verge • Oct. 20, 2021

In other words, what problems does a gestural system solve that a GUI with a more accurate pointing device such as a remote doesn’t?

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2015

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

Tidy is also embedded in some Windows GUI tools, like Tidy-GUI, HTML-Kit and NoteTab.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim

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