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GUI

GUI

13 4.1
A screen interface with windows, icons, and menus you use with a mouse or keyboard
  • noun
  • /ɡuːaɪ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : interfaz gráfica de usuario
  • The new software features a user-friendly GUI that makes it easy to navigate and access different functions.
  • GUI (user interface)
  • GUI interface
  • graphical user interface

There have to be basic editors that you can use from either the command line or a GUI just for administering systems.

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Examples

  • Because nothing improves user experience more than unpredictable GUI behavior and lack of control.

    Blog text (2)
  • Ubuntu 10.04 seems to be the only fully loaded GUI Linux that works on one of my older PCs.

    Blog text (2)
  • And and then a smart, really complex GUI that they designed that works on my phone.

  • And you may be able to use some GUI based software and software hardware track.

  • There have to be basic editors that you can use from either the command line or a GUI just for administering systems.

  • What I value most in a distro at this point is: GUI package manager's ease of use.

    Blog text (2)
  • A decent drag-and-drop GUI would help a lot, with visual representations of "before" and "after."

    Blog text (14)
  • So the issue is that the GUI version of Storage Spaces doesn't have some very important options, like selecting how many columns you want.

  • The Web GUI supports browsing remote file systems, as well as submitting, monitoring, and cancelling transfer requests.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The object-oriented Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows the design of realistic, life-like graphical views of plant processes and remote locations.

    Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

graphical user interface
vsGUI
  • Specialized
2 4.0

A screen with pictures and icons that you click to use a computer

is the shorter abbreviated label used more in informal or quick writing

How Graphical

virtual reality
  • Specialized
29 4.5
touch screen
19 2.7
GUI
  • Specialized
13 4.1
menu
  • Specialized
117 1.2
text box
  • Specialized
3 3.2
command line interface
  • Specialized
1 6.7

Surface Forms

GUI singular
GUIs plural

Etymology

GUI stands for graphical user interface; graphical means 'picture', user is the person using it, and interface is a place where two things 'meet'. So a GUI is like a screen full of pictures and icons you click or touch to control a computer instead of typing commands.