sockets

Noun

socket (plural sockets)

1. An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
   • Near-synonyms: jack, outlet, receptacle, wall socket

   Synonyms:

   jack, outlet, receptacle, wall socket

2. A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
3. The socket head for a socket wrench.
4. A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
5. The hollow of a candlestick.
   • Chriſt calls his Miniſters, Lux Mundi, the light of the World, Matth. 5. 14. therefore they must be alwayes giving forth their luſtre; their light must not go out till it be in the ſocket or till violent death as an extinguisher put it out.1671, Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes, page 8
6. One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.

   Synonyms:

   network socket

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