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CLI

CLI is the initialism of command line interface.

CLI is the initialism of command-line interpreter.

CLI is the initialism of calling line identity or caller line identity.

CLI is the initialism of Common Language Infrastructure.

Meaning of command line interface

Noun

command line interface (plural command line interfaces)

  1. A user interface in which the user interacts with the computer through lines of text instead of graphical images.

Meaning of command-line interpreter

Noun

command-line interpreter (plural command-line interpreters)

  1. A computer program that reads lines of text entered by a user and interprets them in the context of a given operating system or programming language.
    Synonyms:
    CLI, command language interpreter, command line shell

Forms of CLI

pluralCLIs

Questions about CLI

What is CLI the initialism of?
CLI is the initialism of command line interface.

Words near CLI in the dictionary

  1. Cley next the Sea
  2. cleys
  3. cleystaff
  4. CLG
  5. CLGs
  6. CLI
  7. cli-fi
  8. CLIA
  9. cliachite
  10. clianthus
  11. clianthuses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CLI (page history and authors); command line interface (page history and authors); command-line interpreter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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