Socket

socket
1. The hollow part of a joint; the excavation in one bone of a joint which receives the articular end of the other bone.
2. Any hollow or concavity into which another part fits, as the eye socket.
Origin: thr. O. Fr. Fr. L. Soccus, a shoe, a sock

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