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a hole that holds whatever you plug into it, no questions asked
means A hollow fitting designed to receive and hold something — a plug, a bone, an eyeball, a light bulb — so the two parts lock together.
from From Anglo-Norman 'soket,' a diminutive of Old French 'soc,' meaning a ploughshare — the metal point of a plough. The likely image is of a small ploughshare-shaped spike or its hollow fitting; over time the word drifted from the blade to the socket that received it. The 'soc' itself is thought to be of Gaulish or Celtic origin, related to words for a pig's snout, since a ploughshare roots through earth the way a snout does.
- eye anatomy
- your eyeballs live in bony sockets called orbits
- electric variety
- 230 outlet types exist worldwide, none agreeing
- linux roots
- network sockets let programs talk across machines
- word origin
- from old french for a plowshare's little point
- joint design
- your hip is a ball-and-socket built to swivel
unix domain socket — inter-process communication mechanism in unix systems since 1983, used by x11 and systemd
berkeley socket — bsd socket api created at uc berkeley in 1983, became the standard for network programming
websocket — full-duplex communication protocol standardized in rfc 6455 (2011), enables real-time web applications