cavity
A hole or hollow depression in a solid object.
Other meanings
A hollow area within the body.
The female part of a mold: the depression itself or (metonymically) the half of the mold that contains it.
Synonyms
- pit
A kind of
- hole
Kinds of cavity
- fire pit
- tar pit
Related words
- cavicapture
- anticavity
- cavitation
- cavitied
- cavitand
- cavityless
- multicavity
- subcavity
- cavity wall
- cavity QED
- pelvic cavity
- mouth cavity
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "cavitās".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cavity” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.