graphical user interface
noun
plural graphical user interfaces
: a user interface that allows a computer user to interact easily with the computer typically by making choices from displayed menus or groups of icons
… how quickly the software companies can write new applications, or new versions of old applications, to take advantage of windows, icons, menus and mice, the principal elements of the graphical user interface.—
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Using VirtualBox’s unattended install feature (the default setting), Oracle Linux installs itself as a command-line-only system with no graphical user interface (GUI).
—Edward Mendelson, PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025
System components included a lithium-ion battery, a microcontroller, Bluetooth module, resistors, capacitors, N-type and P-type MOSFETs, and linear regulators for wirelessly controlling the flavor channels via a graphical user interface (GUI) in the virtual environment.
—Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2024
The clueless top brass at Xerox’s headquarters sat by while Apple, and eventually everyone else, copied its graphical user interface.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
The testbed group plans to release a new graphical user interface soon, as well as a test orchestration tool that contains hundreds of plug-and-play test cases to help customers quickly determine if their prototypes are working as intended across a variety of standards and scenarios.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2024
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Edward Mendelson, PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025
System components included a lithium-ion battery, a microcontroller, Bluetooth module, resistors, capacitors, N-type and P-type MOSFETs, and linear regulators for wirelessly controlling the flavor channels via a graphical user interface (GUI) in the virtual environment.
—Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2024
The clueless top brass at Xerox’s headquarters sat by while Apple, and eventually everyone else, copied its graphical user interface.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
The testbed group plans to release a new graphical user interface soon, as well as a test orchestration tool that contains hundreds of plug-and-play test cases to help customers quickly determine if their prototypes are working as intended across a variety of standards and scenarios.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2024
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“Graphical user interface.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graphical%20user%20interface. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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