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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

UI en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of unemployment insurance.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of user interface.
    • Some UIs tend to improve this by displaying toolbars only when they are related to any object manipulated (e.g., an image, a rectangle) and undisplaying them afterwards. 2005, Maria Francesca Costabile, Fabio Paternò, Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2005, page 199:
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of urinary incontinence.

Forms

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UIs Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

WIMP (user interface) · SIN (unemployment insurance) · UI/UX (user interface) · SSN (unemployment insurance)

Hyponyms

MUI (user interface) · CUI (user interface) · CHUI (user interface) · GUI (user interface) · YUI (user interface)

Relateds

EI (unemployment insurance) · UX (user interface)

Translations (4)

pl UI (initialism of user interface) · ru ю-и (initialism of user interface) · ru ю-ай (initialism of user interface) · fr IU (initialism of user interface)

Source: en.wiktionary, “UI” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.