socket

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An electrical socket.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɒkɪt X-SAMPA: /"sA:.kIt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkɪt

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman soket, "spearhead" (diminutive of Old French soc: plowshare), from Vulgar Latin soccus.

Noun

socket (plural sockets)

1. (mechanics) An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
2. (anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
3. (computing) A two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.

Derived terms

• ball-and-socket joint
• dry socket
• eye socket
• light bulb socket
• mains socket
• network socket
• power socket
• socket wrench
• tooth socket
• wall socket

Translations

mechanical opening

• Albanian: prizë (sq) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 插座 (cmn) (chāzuò)

• Czech: patice f, zdířka f, zásuvka f (power socket)
• Dutch: stopcontact (nl) n, fitting (nl) f
• Finnish: pistorasia (fi), istukka (fi), kanta (fi)
• French: prise (fr), douille (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Steckdose (de) f, Fassung (de) f
• Greek: ρευματοδότης (el) (revmatodótis) m, πρίζα (el) (príza) f
• Icelandic: innstunga (is) f
• Japanese: コンセント (ja) (konsento)

• Luhya: esoket
• Polish: gniazdko (pl) n
• Romanian: priză (ro)
• Russian: розетка (ru) (rozétka) f (power socket), гнездо (ru) (gnezdó) n, разъём (ru) (razʺjóm) m
• Serbo-Croatian: utičnica (sh) f
• Slovak: pätica (sk) f
• Spanish: enchufe (es) m
• Swahili: soketi (sw)
• Tagalog: plag (tl)
• Turkish: fiş (tr)

hollow in a bone

• Dutch: (for the eye) kas (nl) m, (for joints) kom (nl) m
• French: orbite (fr) m (for the eye)

• Greek: φατνίο (el) (fatnío) n, κόγχη (el) (kónchi) f
• Russian: глазница (ru) (glaznica) (eye socket)
• Spanish: cuenca (es) f (eye socket)

computing interprocess communication channel

• Czech: soket (cs) m

• French: socket (fr) f
• Russian: сокет (ru) (soket)