| English | Xhosa |
| Component Platform Interface | i-Component Platform Interface (A programming interface used to build and maintain unattended installation answer files and configuration sets by adding security fixes, changing drivers, and so forth) |
| graphical user interface | imbonakalo-mfanekiso yeprogram elungele umsebenzisi (A display format, like that of Windows, that represents a program's functions with graphic images such as buttons and icons. GUIs enable a user to perform operations and make choices by pointing and clicking with a mouse) |
| hardware interface | isinxulumanisi sezixhobo zekhompyutha (A card, plug, or other device that connects pieces of hardware with the computer so that information can be moved from place to place. For example, standardized interfaces such as RS-232-C standard and SCSI enable communications between computers and printers or disks) |
| high-definition multimedia interface | Isinxulumaniso semalthimidiya esikumgangatho ophezulu (A digital interface specification for delivering digital content and connecting consumer electronic devices) |
| Language Interface Pack | I-Language Interface Pack (Add-in software that provides partially localized user interfaces for particular computer programs in languages not supported by localized versions of those programs) |
| Messaging Application Programming Interface | isiNxulumanisi soLungiselelo lwe-Aplikheyishini yokwenziwa kwemiYalezo (A messaging architecture that enables multiple applications to interact with multiple messaging systems across a variety of hardware platforms. MAPI is built on the Component Object Model (COM) foundation) |
| Multilingual User Interface | Isinxulumaniso soMsebenzisi olwimiNinzi (A technology that allows for the installation and use of multiple user-interface languages) |
| Multimedia Content Description Interface | isiNxulumanisi soCaciso-Meko yeMaltimidiya (A standard of video compression and file format developed by the Moving Pictures Experts Group for description and search of multimedia content data) |
| single-document interface | isinxulumanisi soxwebhu olunye (A specification according to which each open document occupies its own window in the UI, though only a single instance of the program application is running) |
| visual interface | imbonakalo-mfanekiso yeprogram (A display format, like that of Windows, that represents a program's functions with graphic images such as buttons and icons. GUIs enable a user to perform operations and make choices by pointing and clicking with a mouse) |
