socket : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: socket	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for socket
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
socket n a bony hollow into which a structure fits receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Socket \Sock"et\, n. [OE. soket, a dim. through OF. fr. L. soccus. See {Sock} a covering for the foot.] 1. An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth. His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. --Dryden. 2. Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick. And in the sockets oily bubbles dance. --Dryden. {Socket bolt} (Mach.), a bolt that passes through a thimble that is placed between the parts connected by the bolt. {Socket chisel}. Same as {Framing chisel}. See under {Framing}. {Socket pipe}, a pipe with an expansion at one end to receive the end of a connecting pipe. {Socket pole}, a pole armed with iron fixed on by means of a socket, and used to propel boats, etc. [U.S.] {Socket wrench}, a wrench consisting of a socket at the end of a shank or rod, for turning a nut, bolthead, etc., in a narrow or deep recess.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
socket The {Berkeley Unix} mechansim for creating a virtual connection between processes. Sockets interface {Unix}'s {standard I/O} with its {network} communication facilities. They can be of two types, stream (bi-directional) or {datagram} (fixed length destination-addressed messages). The socket library function socket() creates a communications end-point or socket and returns a {file descriptor} with which to access that socket. The socket has associated with it a socket address, consisting of a {port} number and the local host's network address. {Unix manual page}: socket(2). (1995-01-31)