What is the meaning of Socket?

  • (n.) Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
  • (n.) An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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MLAWebster's. "socket" 28 May 2011. Web. 22 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/socket/definitions/2063627>
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