command line interface

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsCLI

   Broaderinterface

Questions about command line interface

What does command line interface mean?

command line interface means "a user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon".

What is another word for command line interface?

Close synonyms include CLI. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is command line interface a common word?

command line interface is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.