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This word has dozens of subtly different meanings that generally stand for either “start” or “accomplish,” but we all “implement.” Why?

An interface, among other things, is the connection between a computer program and its user. Non-techies have come to use it as a verb meaning “talk with each other.” I don’t get it.

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