contact vs interface

contact

noun
  • The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact. 

  • The act of touching physically; being in close association. 

  • The establishment of communication (with). 

  • A contact lens. 

  • The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. 

  • A device designed for repetitive connections. 

  • Contact juggling. 

  • A nodule designed to connect a device with something else. 

  • Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication. 

verb
  • To establish communication with something or someone. 

  • To touch; to come into physical contact with. 

interface

noun
  • The point of interconnection or contact between entities. 

  • In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement. 

  • A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance. 

  • The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems. 

  • The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface). 

  • The connection between a user and a machine. 

  • The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module, 

verb
  • To connect through an interface. 

  • To construct an interface for. 

  • To serve as an interface. 

  • To meet for discussion. 

How often have the words contact and interface occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )