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cavity

noun
/ˈkæv.ɪt.i//ˈkʰæv.ɨɾ.i/US

Etymology

From Middle French cavité or Late Latin cavitās, from cav(i) (“hollow, excavated, concave”) + -tās (“-ity”, nominal suffix). First attested in the Mid-16th c.

  1. borrowed from cavitās
  2. borrowed from cavité

Definitions

  1. A hole or hollow depression in a solid object.

  2. A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries

    A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.

    • Jim got two cavities filled at the dentist's office yesterday.

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Derived

anticavity, body cavity search, cavicapture, cavitand, cavitation, cavitied, cavityless, cavity magnetron, cavity QED, cavity quantum electrodynamics, cavity resonator, cavity search, cavity wall, centre of cavity, cotyloid cavity, gastrovascular cavity, intracavity, intracavital, microwave resonant cavity thruster, mouth cavity, multicavity, pelvic cavity, pulp cavity, subcavity

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cavity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01cavity02adjacent03contiguous04connecting05connect06land07buildings08building09roof

A definitional loop anchored at cavity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at cavity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA