| Subject | English | Japanese |
| comp., MS | high-level language application programming interface | 高水準言語アプリケーション プログラミング インターフェイス (An API that enables you to develop and run a programmer-operator application for a personal computer on that can communicate with an IBM mainframe using 3270 emulation) |
| comp., MS | interface definition language | インターフェイス定義言語 (In object-oriented programming, a language that lets a program or object written in one language communicate with another program written in an unknown language. An IDL is used to define interfaces between client and server programs. For example, an IDL can provide interfaces to remote CORBA objects) |
| comp. | n Interface Definition Language | インタフェース定義言語 |
| comp., MS | Microsoft Interface Definition Language | Microsoft インターフェイス定義言語 (Microsoft implementation and extension of the Interface Definition Language (IDL)) |
| gen. | natural language interface | 自然言語インタフェース |
| comp., MS | system-preferred interface language | システムが優先するインターフェイス言語 (The language that displays on a system when the user has not selected a user-preferred interface language) |
| comp., MS | user interface language | ユーザー インターフェイス言語 (The language in which all software (including the operating system) displays its menus, help files, error messages, and dialog boxes) |
| comp., MS | user-preferred interface language | ユーザーが選択したインターフェイス言語 (A language selected by the user for viewing menus, dialog boxes, messages, and Help files. If none is selected, the system-preferred language is displayed) |