Socket Definition
sŏkĭt
sockets
noun
An opening or a cavity into which an inserted part is designed to fit.
A light-bulb socket.
American Heritage
The concave part of a joint that receives the end of a bone.
American Heritage Medicine
A hollow piece or part into which something fits.
The socket for a lightbulb, of the eye, of the hipbone, etc.
Webster's New World
(computing) A two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
Wiktionary
verb
To furnish with or fit into a socket.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Socket
Noun
Singular:
socket
Plural:
socketsOrigin of Socket
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Middle English soket from Anglo-Norman spearhead diminutive of soc plowshare probably of Celtic origin sū- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Anglo-Norman soket, "spearhead" (diminutive of Old French soc: plowshare), from Vulgar Latin soccus.
From Wiktionary
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