GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does graphical user interface mean? 

• GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (noun)
  The noun GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE has 1 sense:

1. a user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text; uses a mouse as well as a keyboard as an input device

  Familiarity information: GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text; uses a mouse as well as a keyboard as an input device

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

graphical user interface; GUI

Hypernyms ("graphical user interface" is a kind of...):

interface; user interface ((computer science) a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system)

Meronyms (parts of "graphical user interface"):

dialog box; panel ((computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with 'okay' or 'cancel')

icon ((computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface)

 Context examples 

An area of database record, or graphical user interface form, into which a particular item of data is entered.

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