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The definition of a socket is an opening into which something is specially-designed to fit.

(noun)

An example of a socket is the hole in the wall into which a plug goes.

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noun

a hollow piece or part into which something fits: the socket for a light bulb, of the eye, of the hipbone, etc.

Origin: ME soket, spearhead shaped like a plowshare < Anglo-Fr, dim. < OFr soc, plowshare < Gaul *soccus, plowshare, orig., pig's snout (hence, that which roots out) < IE *suk-, var. of base *su-, sow

transitive verb

to furnish with or fit into a socket

See socket in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

An opening or a cavity into which an inserted part is designed to fit: a light-bulb socket.
Anatomy
a. The concave part of a joint that receives the end of a bone.
b. A hollow or concavity into which a part, such as the eye, fits.

transitive verb sock·et·ed, sock·et·ing, sock·ets

To furnish with or insert into a socket.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English soket

Origin: , from Anglo-Norman, spearhead

Origin: , diminutive of soc, plowshare

Origin: , probably of Celtic origin; see sū- in Indo-European roots

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