user interface
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of user interface
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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"When making tools for chemists, the user interface matters a lot, and previous tools relied on cumbersome filters and rules," says Andres M Bran, the first author of the Synthegy paper published in Matter.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
In 2007, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings moved Netflix away from physical rentals with an accessible, intuitive user interface to stream movies and TV shows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
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
And the user interface - the system you click through to sign players, read news and get to the football - has been remade.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025
It is not a case of publishing data but of distributing a typically stand-alone, typically closed system, all—software, user interface, and data—on a little disk.
From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress
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