cavity
/ˈkæv.ɪt.i/US[ˈkʰæv.ɨɾ.i]
cavity noun: a hollow area within the body.
Noun
cavity (plural cavities)
- A hollow area within the body.
- The female part of a mold: the depression itself or (metonymically) the half of the mold that contains it.
- A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.
- Jim got two cavities filled at the dentist's office yesterday.
- Synonyms:
- caries
cavity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cavity in Hindi
- cavity
- गुहा guhā, विवर vivar
- a cavity, hollow
- खोल khol
cavity in Tamil
- துவாரம், புழை, குழி, உட்குழிவு, பொந்து
cavity in Marathi
- hole and soft area in tooth caused by caries
- दंतक्षय dantakṣay
cavity in Urdu
- a cavity, hollow
- خول xol
More languagesFewer languages
- cavity in Bengali
- গহ্বর, গর্ত, খোল, ছিদ্র
- cavity in Telugu
- కుహరము kuharamu
- cavity in Malayalam
- പോട് pōṭŭ
- cavity in Kannada
- ತೊಳ್ಳೆ, ಟೊಳ್ಳೆ, ಟೊಳ್ಳು, ಪೊಳ್ಳು
- cavity in Punjabi
- ਖੋਲ khol, ਪੇਟ peṭ
- cavity in Gujarati
- ઉદર udar
- cavity in Sanskrit
- आर āra, वपा vapā́, कोटर koṭara
- cavity in Arabic
- تَجْوِيف tajwīf
- cavity in Malay
- kaviti
- cavity in Thai
- ฟันผุ
Examples of cavity in a sentence
- The dentist aimed the X-ray tube at my mouth to find the cavity.
- Being the last teeth to erupt in the oral cavity, many wisdom teeth are impacted.
- Dr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam.
Synonyms of cavity
Forms of cavity
| plural | cavities |
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Origin of cavity
From Middle French cavité or Late Latin cavitās, from cav(i) (“hollow, excavated, concave”) + -tās (“-ity”, nominal suffix). First attested in the Mid-16th c.
Words formed from cavity
- anticavity
- body cavity search
- cavicapture
- cavitand
- cavitation
- cavitied
- cavityless
- cavity magnetron
- cavity QED
- cavity quantum electrodynamics
- cavity resonator
- cavity search
- cavity wall
- centre of cavity
- cotyloid cavity
- gastrovascular cavity
- intracavity
- intracavital
- microwave resonant cavity thruster
- mouth cavity
- multicavity
- pelvic cavity
- pulp cavity
- subcavity
Phrases with cavity
Words that rhyme with cavity
- gravity
- depravity
- concavity
- anticavity
- antigravity
- biconcavity
- endocavity
- intracavity
- microcavity
- microgravity
- minicavity
- multicavity
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Questions about cavity
- What does cavity mean?
- Cavity means a hollow area within the body.
- What is cavity in Hindi?
- Cavity in Hindi is गुहा (guhā), विवर (vivar), खोल (khol). See Cavity meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cavity?
- Cavity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cavity?
- Cavity is pronounced /ˈkæv.ɪt.i/.
- What is the plural of cavity?
- The plural of cavity is cavities.
Words near cavity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cavity (page history and authors); खोल (Hindi) (page history and authors); cavity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); خول (Urdu) (page history and authors); cavity (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కుహరము (Telugu) (page history and authors); cavity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਖੋਲ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ઉદર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); आर (Sanskrit) (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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