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(1) A receptacle that receives a plug. See plugs & sockets.

(2) See Unix socket.

(networking)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).
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You observe that in the ordinary swimming position of the Sperm Whale, the front of his head presents an almost wholly vertical plane to the water; you observe that the lower part of that front slopes considerably backwards, so as to furnish more of a retreat for the long socket which receives the boom-like lower jaw; you observe that the mouth is entirely under the head, much in the same way, indeed, as though your own mouth were entirely under your chin.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The socket of the lost eye presented, it is true, a frightful appearance, but he no longer appeared to suffer any pain.
The Black Cat by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
The wick of the candle fell over in the socket, and left them in the dark.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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