COMMAND LINE INTERFACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does command line interface mean? 

• COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (noun)
  The noun COMMAND LINE INTERFACE has 1 sense:

1. a user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon

  Familiarity information: COMMAND LINE INTERFACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

CLI; command line interface

Hypernyms ("command line 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)